Chapter 97: Chapter 97

We pull away and make our way to New Jersey, and we’ll be there around one and half hours. I finally leave Queens and back to my town after a long time, it’s almost 8 PM and I’ll be locked in prison in the next few hours. My dad keeps calling his friend and asked him about my private prison room. They considerate put me into the private prison in the middle of the night so that no one would see how that corrupt people do their job.

“You good?” Rosa checking on me from the front seat next to my dad, she keeps asking me the same question over and over again to make sure that I’m alright. “Yeah, don’t worry” I respond. I’m not scared of prison, I’m not scared of everything, my head hurts and it always happens since something strange happens to me last month. “Huk…huk…” I coughed and will immediately throw up. “Hey, hey? Are you okay? Dad stops the car!” Rosa exclaims.

I quickly open the car’s door and throw my body on the ground then I throw up on the side of the roadway. “Huk…huk…” I keep coughed and throw up. Rosa caresses my back and it helps me to lessen the pain. “What happened? You okay?” Rosa asks. My dad gets out of the car in dismay “What’s wrong?” He asks. “I don’t know, I think she is sick” Rosa replies. “No, no… I’m good, I just got a little headache during our way” I respond and I up from the ground.

“Are you sure?” My dad asks. “Yeah, yeah… I’m good” I say. All of us back to the car and we continue our way to New Jersey. There’s no something serious happens to me, this usually happens when I’m nervous or something, but this time kind of strange because my body always felt weary when I wake up in the morning, and I tire easily. The sky was blank because no stars accompanying us, even the moon.

I need liquors more than anything now, I need to keep my mind sane, I don’t know how I feel now, I don’t even know what kind of shit that I’m in right now. I felt like I’m lost and I have no place to go, not even somebody to love. “Here we are” My dad pulls in and we reach the prison parking lot. We out of the car and take my bags in the trunk, I’m so nervous, my body’s temperature started to rise, and my sweat started flowing.

“Okay, now take a deep breath and keep calm” Rosa says, she settles me down. “Huh… okay” I inhale deeply and grab my bags with me. We make our way to the prison and get into the prison waiting room in dismay. My dad looks cool like nothing happens. Rosa and I sit in the waiting room and my dad talk with his friend in the other room. It’s been 15 minutes Rosa and I sit like 4-grade kids waiting for their exam result in tense.

“What makes him so long?” I ask in dismay as I started biting my nails. “Hey, stop it!” Rosa pulls my hand away from my mouth. “That’s him!” She exclaims. We quickly up from our sit and standing in tenses as we waited for my dad to reach us in the waiting room. “All clear!” My dad exhales in relief. “No more tense” He says. “So, I’m going in, now?” I ask with a raised brow. “Yes, we’ll visit you on Friday, okay?” My dad says. “Don’t worry” He ends.

“Take care...” Rosa hugs me, tears dripping down to her cheeks. I held my tears and tried to not cry “I will” I respond, I caress her back after. “Oh, thanks daddy, for everything…” I hug my dad. “Just one more night after this and we’ll visit you here” My dad says, he’s caressing my back. “O-okay daddy” I sigh and I off myself from him. “How’s my thingie?” I ask. “Don’t worry” My dad replies. “Okay, see you guys soon!” I say my last words and smile before I leave the waiting room.

The male officer takes my bags with him and we make our way into the prison after, but before we get into the prison, the female officer checked my bags and my body. “Open your clothes!” She asks. “Excuse me?” I respond with a raised brow. “Open your clothes and turn around” She says. “No more comment!” She ends. I quickly take my clothes off and do all the procedures. They checked on my mouth, my bags, even though my hair.

Is that possible if someone hides something inside their hair or mouth? My hair is not that curl, it’s kind of wavy but nothing can get stuck inside it. And mouth, is that possible to hide a gun or weapon inside it, I think the procedure is bullshit. They can check on my bags, I don’t mind. But check on someone’s body and private area that’s not necessary. I don’t know how federal prisons work, they maybe have more strict scary procedures than this place.

I watched documentaries about prison life a month ago before I got in here and learned about the prison thing, but this prison is one hundred percent different from anything I watched on the internet, this place is more likely a retirement house than a prison. I mean, in my block, not the other blocks. They put me in A block with a private cell and clean areas. “Is each block has different services? This place is kind of strange” I ask the guard as we walk to A block.

“Oh, yeah… the A and B blocks are for the riches or executives people who paid for every single night stays and the C and D is a federal state” He explains. “W-what? I thought this prison was a private prison” I respond. “Yes, it is… but the private one is only for A block and B” He explains. “Is that how the government works? Work for people who had money and power?” I raise my brow. “I mean, these people deserve to be treated as the same” I say.

“Oh, so, you want them to stole your bunk and sleep in your room?” The guard states, he gives me a smirk with a raised brow. We reach my room and he put my bags on the floor, he out of my room after and he shook his head before he leaves. “Well great!” I mumble with a raised brow. This place is more like a nice place for rest for the riches and powerful people after their long crimes. “Ughhh…” I groan and sit on my bunk.

The officer took my phone and I have nothing to do now, I wear a basic navy prison uniform with black boots. My room has a room heater and a small fridge, the room is white with a little of grey line around the ceiling, and this is inversely proportional to the C block and D. The guard and I passed the C block and D before we reached my private cell, the C and D inmates sleep in the same large room with bunks around their cubes.

The C block and D are same clean as the A and B, the differences are just they don’t have a private room and privacy, and of course the fridge and the room heater. They separate the inmates between races and I don’t know what the purpose of it, I think all people are same no matter what kind of race they are, but this prison separates the inmates. The white stays in the half of C block, the Hispanic stays in the other place of C block, the Blacks and Asians stay in the D block.

It’s different in the private cells because there is no difference here, people can stay if they had money no matter what kind of race they are, as long as they pay for every single night and all problems solved. It’s kind of unfair I admit, but there’s no option for me, I have to think more about myself than others. I pack my clothes to my locker and my things, I put my family’s picture on the drawer next to my bunk and I put Lena’s gift inside the drawer.

I kept the ring which she gave me six years ago when she’s proposed me in Paris. Yes, I still kept the ring with me, because it’s a beautiful ring and it reminds me of her. “Knock… knock… knock” My door sounds, somebody’s just knocking my room. I make my way and open the door “Yes?” I respond. “Here’s your computer, your family paid for this” The female guard gave me my MacBook. “Are you serious?” I shocked. “Yes…” The guard responds.

“H-how about my phone?” I ask and I almost jump because I’m thrilled. “Oh, no phone allowed here. But you can use your computer or Ipad” She says. “Oh, God, thank you so much, thank you so much…” I yelp as I take my computer from her. She leaves my room and shook her head before she leaves. This is the strangest thing that ever happens in my life, this place is insane, they just take every single cent from us and let us do whatever we wanted.

“Oh my goodness, this place is insane!” I shut the door in thrilled as I walk towards the drawer and put my computer on top of it after. “Those guards won’t let an inmate using a cell phone but they let us using a computer, we can even call people from the computer, what a fool!” I laugh softly as I turn on my Mac. “Oh, fuck! Should I buy the Wi-Fi instead?” I sigh. “Shit! How can I use this thing if I have no Wi-Fi, fuck! I don’t even have any games before I got here” I mumble.

“Shit” I sigh. I leave my computer and throw my body on my bunk, face down to the sheet. I turn around and sigh, staring at the ceiling for minutes before I got my midnight sickness back. “Oh, my God” My head felt like a roller coaster. There’s no plastic bag in my room and I’m about to throw up. “Oh, my God” My breath starts to get heavy. I quickly out of my room and running full speed to the public inmate restroom because there’s no private bathroom in my cell.

“Huk… huk…huk…” I coughed and keep throwing up on the prison sink. “Oh, God… damn it” I keep throwing up over and over again. My body feels weak as if it has no strength anymore, I kept throwing up over and over again, all my foods just came out of my stomach, and it’s fucking hurt my body. I felt sick now, I think I got a GERD symptom or it’s just anxiety, but I don’t have any gastric disease since I was a kid. “Hukk… hukk…” I throw up again.

“Hey, are you okay…?”