𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜

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𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 "𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 𝙋𝙄𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙀" 𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨, 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩.
-𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙚

𝟻 𝚈𝚛𝚜 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟿, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸

Today is the day. It's finally my time, after all these gruesome years I get to return to my fucking life. I don't even know where to start if I'm being totally honest. After gathering all my pictures, drawings, and letters from family, I just sat patiently and waited. Waiting for a guard to come cuff me and take me away from this cell for good.

I signed taking in the silence of my cell. I've had my cell to myself for the last two years for good behavior. The warden granted me this one thing after I basically saved his life in a huge prison riot we had a while ago.

I heard that my old cell mates where gone anyway. I was told that one of them got released a few months ago, one was jumped and beat to death, and the other one hung herself because she found out that her only child was killed in a really bad car accident. Shit is so sad, my eyes water every time I think about it.

I feel like I lost her in a sense. Even though she wasn't related to me, she was one of the very few women in here who had my back and showed me some respect. What makes it worse is that she was serving a life sentence for the premeditated murder of her husband who abused her and her daughter.

She helped me out of a lot of fights. She took the blame for me when I was forced to stab someone in order to keep my own life. I remember she said to me, "You just a kid. I'm older with nothing else to lose on this life sentence."

To this day, I still don't understand why she did all of that for me. We barely even knew each other. Maybe I reminded her of her daughter and that's why she took a protective liking to me.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard keys turning a lock and a faint screeching sound. I looked up and saw the Warden standing there with three guards surrounding him. I was a little surprised to see him here, not gone lie.

"It's your lucky day, Carter." Is all that he said to me as he held his hand out for me to shake. I briefly looked at his hand and shook my head no as I pulled him in for a much needed hug.

I can honestly say that I was so close to giving up on life until I saved his. He rewarded me the best that he could, giving me hope and a place to escape from all the other inmates who only wanted to take what I had.

He gave me two strong pats on the back and pulled away from the hug. "You a good kid Carter. So don't find yo way back here no more, you hear me?"

I nodded my head letting happy tears flow down my face. I grabbed all my stuff and allowed myself to be escorted to a room so I could get the things I had in my possession right before I got locked up.

And with that I was finally fucking free. I walked out of those prison gates where they released all the prisoners and was met with a lot of familiar faces.