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5. game night

  I continue to eat with Malek in silence as Jesse and Aaron continued talking, filling the awkward silence at the table.

  After lunch wrapped up Jesse had her session with the doctors as I sat down and sketched at the art table, just passing the time.

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  "Hey" I hear Jesse say from behind me, I turn as she comes and sits down beside me.

  "Were finished tell Thursday now" she smiles

  "What?" I say confused

  "They work with the guys Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and us on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. They leave Sunday as a break day" she smiles. Well I guess that's not too bad.

  We watched some tv with Aaron for a while before supper, not sure where Malek disappeared too.

  "Supper" the lady's say coming into the room with our plates, setting them down for us to have supper.

  We ate alone for a while until Malek decided to reemerge from where ever he was to join us. We eventually finish and Jesse took our plates to the designated area for the ladies to pick up for cleaning before coming back to the table.

  "It's game nighttt" she says all giddy as she comes back and sits down

  "What game" Aaron says grinning

  Just then Malek stands to leave but Jesse grabs his wrist and stops him

  "Please stay, it's Ivys first Game night" she says and he looks up from her across the table to me then back to Jesse before rolling his eyes and sitting back down. I honestly thought he would've left.

  "Okay" she grins as he sits down. "This is the new game" she grins ear to ear grabbing a tin from behind her on the art table and placing it in the middle.

  Truth or dare. Shit. Who makes a truth or dare card game?

  "Seriously" Malek says unamused, he has a deeper voice with a American accent.

"Seriously" she grins before opening it. "Who wants to start" she says looking around but no one says anything.

  "Okay I will" she says placing the truth and dare cards out on the table infront of us.

  "Aaron" she grins "truth or dare"

"Truth" he smiles and she picks up the first truth card

  "If you could make one wish right this second, what would it be" she says reading off the card

  "Seriously" he says and she grins "I guess that ones a no brainer" she says placing the card down in the discard pile

  "To get the fuck out of here" he says answering the question before turning his head to Malek.

  "Truth or dare" he says and Malek sits back in his chair and looks at me then back at Aaron before answering "dare". Why did I see that one coming.

  Aaron picks up the first dare card and reads it out "for the remainder of the game sit with no shirt on"

  Malek rolls his eyes as Aaron and Jesse laugh, not a hard one to do when you basically live in like that.

  He looks around the table. "Ivy" he says suddenly and my anxiety shoots through the roof.

  "Truth or dare" he says sitting back in the chair again.

   "Dare" I say unsure

  "Get the person to your right to kiss you on 5 of your favourite body parts " he says and his lip twitch's up in amusement before raising his eyes up from the card to me. Fuck my life. AND it's with Aaron? No.

  "What?" I say and my cheeks go beet red

  He then flips the card around so I can see that he didn't just make it up. Why do I get this one.

  "I don't know" I say and Jesse laughs

  "Well" Jesse then says grinning

  "I'm not doing that, what's the truth" I say rolling my eyes

  "The only reason you wouldn't want to answer that is because they're dirty" Malek than says from across the table before lifting up the next Truth card.

    "What's yours then Mother Mary?" I say rolling my eyes at him.

  "My dick, princess" he says flat out and my jaw dropped a little. Did he actually just-?

  "What's your body count?" He reads out the truth card leaving no time for a response then flips the card around for me to read

  I just sit back in the chair. I don't like this game. Why do I get both of the dirty cards.

  "Ivy" Jesse says looking at me "That's not even a hard one"

  "She doesn't have one" Malek suddenly says and I look up at him n he's grinning? Screw you. It just hasn't happened yet.

  "Dude you're 21" Jesse says shocked and tiers start to form in my eyes I'm so uncomfortable and embarrassed but I refuse to cry. Should've just lied quickly, why did I hesitate. Stupid.

  "Guys, what the actual fuck does it matter" Aaron suddenly says, seeing my discomfort

  "She's gunna die a virgin in this place" Malek says grinning

  I stand from the table and quickly leave basically running back to my room as tears now start to flood down my face. Now I look like the biggest loser, I should've just owned it but it's too late. Stupid. I don't know these people this is just too uncomfortable.

  "Ivy" Jesse says following me

  "Nice one" I hear Aaron say to Malek scoldingly as he also gets up from the table

  I close my door and run to my bed but Jesse opens it and follows me in

  "Don't listen to him" she says sitting down beside me. I pull my legs up to my chest and hold myself closely trying to hide that I was crying

  "Hes an asshole" I say annoyed when suddenly Aaron comes into the room.

  "Don't listen to him, okay. He's miserable in this place and he's rude to everyone because of it. He use to pull the same shit with me but he's not that bad just give him time" Aaron says and Jesse nods and agrees with him before placing her hand on my back and rubbing it trying to make me feel better

  "I think I'm just going to take a shower and go to bed" I say running my hands through my hair trying to forget about everything. I feel so dramatic I know outside of these walls I wouldn't have reacted this way but my emotions are all over the place in this prison.

  "Okay, I promise it won't always be like this" Jesse says and Aaron nods. I just give them a small smile before getting off the bed and walking to the bathroom.

   I quickly shower in peace refusing you cry and give the entire interaction any more attention, he's stupid and it doesn't matter that I don't have a body count. He's probably a man whore who lost his virginity at 12, which is worse than being a virgin.

  I think.

  I turn the water off and step out of the shower before wrapping myself with my towel  and walking to the sink to brush my teeth. As I begin brushing Malek suddenly walks in, making me jolt. He sees me but is unfazed as he continues to the sink beside me, grabbing his tooth brush as he begins to also brush his teeth in silence.

  He steps away from the sink and walk over to one of the showers and leans against the half wall, looking into the mirror back at himself then over to me. I watch as his eyes trail from my reflection to my exposed legs and slowly up to my back.

  I quickly spit out the rest of my tooth paste and rinse out my mouth before quickly leaving the bathroom. Who does he think he is.