Islan
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70 days into 365
"If we get caught."
"Well, we will if you keep talking." Rain stands behind me and covers my mouth.
We pass the kitchen, making our way inside the room where they keep all the commissary.
"See, told you." We both smile.
"So, you just take one thing from everybody order?" I speak quietly.
"Basically, only from the people I don't like." He sits down on a box and I do the same. "They just be thinkin the CO's doing it, since they're crooked anyways."
I read over the boxes until I find mine. "My baby went crazy with my shit this time."
Rain leans over to read the name but I cover it.
"You real secretive about this lady of yours."
"Cause you nosey." I push my stuff to the side.
"You never told me how you felt about them transferring Flip."
"Um concerned because I don't know if he did have something to do with that lady murder."
"You think he did and keeping it from you?"
"That or he going to take the blame for that shit." I hold open the pillowcase so Rain can put some stuff in it.
"Street rules." I pick up one of the items to read.
"Fuck a street rule. I'm not doing time for no body but my daughter. A friend wouldn't even ask you to." He looking over someone's order.
"Yeah but if you get out then you have to duck and hide from niggas."
"So, at least you can move to another state and start over. Verses going to prison f0r life and getting beat, sexually assaulted, going crazy or possibly ending up killed. All for your so called friends to never write, visit or put money on your books. But you get the street credit of a 'real nigga' ....the fuck that going to hell with in here?"
I thought about what Rain was saying. Plenty times. Which is why I wanted out. Street rules can be unethical and confusing.
Rain stopped collecting stuff.
"Whats up? We done?"
"I hear something." I look around.
"Who the fuck is it?" Rain says, as we peer out into darkness.
"Now what do we have here?" Dillard appears
Rain sighs. "Shit."
"Yeah, you ain't as sly as you thought. I been on to you for months. I wouldn't have cared but you brought him along and I don't like him." He sizes me up and down.
I just ignore him.
"This could easily land y'all in the hole for a week or extend your time here."
"Can't you just give us extra duties or some shit? Or just throw me in solitary, I can't have my time extended." I had to get home to Tre.
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RomansaIslan wasn't anything special, in his eyes. He was poor, always in trouble and not good at much but women. He desired nothing more than finding a way to take care of his family. Tre came from a wealthy family. He dated the finest girl in town. He h...
