The next morning, I was woken up by an prison guard, who asked me to work.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I immediately grabbed her and said, "My child! Someone killed my child yesterday!"
The prison guard looked at me up and down, "Are you crazy?"
"I am not!"
I defended myself.
However, the intruders had taken away everything that flowed out of my stomach with the basins they had brought yesterday.
I lowered my head and saw that there was still some blood on my pants. Then I pointed to the bloodstain and said to the prison guard, "This, this is the blood that flowed out of my body yesterday!"
The prison guard looked at me and rolled her eyes at me, "We are all women. You should have informed me earlier if you are having a period."
No matter what I said, she wouldn't be convinced.
And she arranged for me to go to work.
When I finished my work and wanted to go back to my cell, the prison guard stopped me and pointed to a cell where many people lived as she said, "From today on, you will live here."
I suddenly realized that the reason why I could live in that cell with good conditions yesterday was that someone probably had set everything in place long ago.
As soon as I entered the cell where many people lived, a few fat women surrounded me. One of them grabbed my hair and asked me, "Are you the one who kept yelling yesterday and disturbed me from sleeping well?"
"No... I..."
Seeing that she was unkind, I wanted to deny it subconsciously, only to be directly punched in the face!
After that, several women pressed me to the corner of the wall, beating and kicking me over and over again.
I curled up and heard one of the women who beat me say, "As for her, there is a special approval. We can hit her at our will as long as we don't beat her to death."
I felt a chill run down my spine.
"Patrick Cowell, you're so cruel!"
(To be continued)
Time passed by...
Finally, my sentence of one-and-a-half-year imprisonment was up.
I stood at the entrance of the jail with wounds and scars all over my body. The strong sunlight shone on me, making me feel a little pain. At the same time, it made me more like I was alive.
"Charlotte, welcome back."
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