Boxing Partners

Death Inspires Me Like A Dog Inspires A Rabbit

Three Weeks Earlier

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Minerva was sat in detainment, in her prison cell-like room, the dark mould creeping from corner to corner, like a black void that was consuming her, sucking out all life within her. Nothing seemed fun anymore, no joy, no love no nothing. Every who she had ever cared about had either died or left her and the truth was is that she hadn't got the will to live.

She hugged her pillow tight, her sobs no heavy no sound came out, the tears rolled off her face and onto the dingy pillows that smelt of mildew.

Suddenly there was a heavy clank on the door, the hatch at her eye-level.

"Leigh! You have a visitor"

"I do?" the girl said sitting up and looking at the door her vision couldn't focus as she tried to look through the sea of tears.

The door opened and a woman grabbed her wrist and started to drag her away,

"Where are you taking me?!"

"You'll find out"

She was pushed into a room with a wall down the centre with plastic windows separating the troubled and the sane. The redhead walked down the room sitting at the window, she picked up the phone and waited, a middle-aged woman with red hair and a tall man with baby blue eyes walked in.

"Mom? Dad?" the girl croaked,

"Minerva. I didn't think that we would have to do this" the woman spoke,

"What do you mean?"

"What your mother is trying to say is that they found your brother, he was being held captive by that bastard Carver. When Tenn woke up he told us what happened that night." He paused and looked away,

"God, I can't even look at you. You're sick" her mother said coldly, "We're keeping you in the Delta, you need help. Fucking drugs. You're the reason why Sophie's dead and why Tenn is scarred for life."

"We came to say goodbye, I'm taking the family across the country, somewhere where you can't reach us. Out of the godforsaken town."

"Goodbye, Minerva." The older couple said in unison, Minerva's blood ran cold, the tears started to build in her eyes once more,

"Wait! Please don't leave me here!"

They turned for a split second to look at what was their daughter,

"Who are you anymore? You're not the Minnie we loved"

She threw the phone at the plastic window, scratching it. The staff immediately grabbed her "Get off me!" she said whilst flailing her arms around, she got up and punched the guards.

"We got an A13 in the visitors' room! Get down here now and bring a sedative"

No less than a minute later, five guards dressed in white forced the girl to the floor. She felt a scratch in her neck, she paused and held her hand there. Starting to stumble around the room, before collapsing down on the floor. The girl's body landing with a thud, her eyelids felt heavier and heavier until her vision faded to black.

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Present Day

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"Costner!"

"Yes, Ma'am?"

"Meet your new roommate, Minerva Leigh"

A tall girl with a dark black bob shuffled into the room, her grey eyes glared through the dusty room, the door slammed behind her with a clank.