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Death Row

Chapter 1

Its my first day in death row. I don't belong here. Only unstable people are forced here so they don't harm our society. I don't know who's idea it was to put a whole bunch of unstable people in a broken down apartment on the outskirts of town. The apartment isnt even highly guarded! The residents of the apartment could just escape and over run the Capital. But they don't…they normally don't last long enough to even try. Nobody leaves there alive. They say if you make it a whole thirty days without killing yourself your are escorted to the capital to be questioned about your stability. One guy named Josiah made it to the Capital but killed himself during the test. Ill make it out if i don't get killed because I'm stable, i was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Chapter 2

Im waiting out side of the hospital for the crazy bus to show up.Im strapped to the walls of my room by my hands and feet so i can't move. I feel so tired and weak from struggling all night. Its harder than it looks sleeping strapped to a wall. I also have a strap around my neck that will shock me if i do something I'm not support to like move,scream or cry. My neck and whole body hurts from struggling and screaming last night but being carried out of your room at two in the morning isn't pleasant especially when they stick you with a needle and you wake up in a strange environment. Anyway as the bus arrives the officer injects me with a long needle full of a green liquid which nocks me out cold. I wake up in a room with faded blue wallpaper thats hanging down from the wall at the corners and is ripped along all the punch holes in the walls.I notice a bag filled with a black shirt and black sweat on a small bed with a faded light green sheet. The sheet has a blood stain in the bottom left hand corner about the size of a toilet seat. I wonder what happened before i moved in and slip the clothes on quickly. I should walk outside to see what it looks like.

Its a pretty good sized lot with one apartment the size of a large hotel. The apartment has a balcony outside of ever door so the two guards by the front gait can watch you. They don't stop any murders or deaths… they just stand there and watch ready to call the morgue truck. Theres also a fence about ten feet high with spikes on the top. Theres still blood on one of the spikes. In another area are a whole bunch of big scary men huddled around a campfire and a girl a little older than me. I know her. After all…Im the reason she's in here.

Chapter 3

Her name is Audrey. She went to my high school until "the accident" happened. It was just a normal day of school until I fell and tripped her. She hit her head and…well quite frankly went crazy! She almost killed the nurse because she wouldn't let her kill me. She became the next person on death row two months ago, I have a feeling she hasn't forgot or forgave yet. This is going to be interesting.

As she notices me she starts to walk over to me, I don't move. Not only because I can't, I don't want to. I am going to have to make a good impression to survive this place until I get out of here.

"Hey Ashley, I knew it was only a matter of time before you got caught!"

"Im not in here because of you" I say not yelling but not showing her I'm afraid.

"Oh then why are you here because I know they didn't send you in here for cheating on a test" She smirks while  staring at me with her white eyes sending my chills down my back.

"I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time" I say casually trying to keep my voice from cracking. Cracking only shows cowardice and I'm not a coward. 

"Sure just like you foot was in the '"wrong place at the wrong time'" 

"You know that was a mistake!" I scream at her causing the men around the campfire to look.

"Oh so you want a crowd do you?! Well lets give them something to watch then, shall we?" As she finishes her sentence she pulls a blade out of her back pocket and jumps on me, knocking me on the ground. She's on top of me with a blade in both of her hands ready to kill me. I quickly grab the end of the blade slicing my palm open and flip her over onto the ground with me on top of her. The blade cuts deeper and deeper into my palm and blood is dripping down from the blade onto her face. A drop falls into her eye and she blinks. Giving me just enough time to shove the blade into her chest. A gasp exits her mouth as she grips the blade, but before she can grab it out a stream of blood runs out of her mouth and she dies. It almost seemed to easy.

Chapter 4

The men applaud as I stand up and they offer me a spot around the camp fire. They all seem normal but I know that the crazy comes out at night or when they see something that brings back bad memories. But I haven't seen any of these men before, they must have came from different bridges of the district. So I should be safe until night.

I don't have much time though, its already six and curfew is nine. So I head up to my room to prepare for night. I fix the lock on my door so it locks securely and then I look around the room. I didn't get a very good chance to look in my room and see what they left me to live with earlier so Im glad I went up early. I realize that its simple and small with a bed with a ripped sheet with blood stains all over it and a small hard pillow on it. A dresser (which I'm not sure what thats for since we only have one pair of clothes) and a small window with rails over it. I noticed this morning on my way in that there was an open shower in the left wing of the yard. Im going to have to shower in front of a whole bunch of grown me or not shower at all. I debate about what I should do as I crawl into bed. Its non so all the men are heading to bed. Wish me luck.

Chapter 5

Its two thirty and I wake up to the sound of wild animals. Though its just unstable men it still startles me. The sound very close to my door but Im not sure. I get up and check the lock on the door to make sure its locked even though I know i locked it before i went to bed. As I started to walk back into bed someone slams against my door…again… and again. Finally it stops and says

"Come out my pretty, I know your in there!'

I jump into my bed and cover my head with the sheet, or whats left of it at least. I won't be able to fall back asleep with all the racket but ill have to so I can stay alert tomorrow. Night.

Chapter 6

Its five o'clock and the noise has stopped so Im going to sneak out to take a shower. Hopefully no one will wake up and see me. As I turn on the water I close my eyes and try to forget where I am but pulled back to reality once again when the shower next to me turns on. There is a very built man next to me completely naked. I decide that ill leave some water for the next guy and keep some of my dignity while I can. I wrap a towel around me and walk over to the campfire. I try to dry my hair as three men walk from their rooms to the campfire. I noticed last night but I thought it was because I was new but they are still doing, or not doing it I should say. They haven't talked except in whispers every once and a while. Odd but understandable. As Im wondering why they don't talk, a man whispering with another man points at me and stars to walk over.

"Excuse me mam but there doesn't seem to by anything wrong with you. May I ask why your in here?"

"I was in the wrong place at the wrong time"

"Oh it happens to the best of us" He gestures to the men. "My name is Joel whats yours?"

"Im Ashley"

"Thats a pretty name! I hate to ask such a huge favor… no I shouldn't impose… but you must!" He says under his breath but loud enough for me to hear, "As I was saying I hate asking such a huge favor from a new friend but, can I share a room with you? Ill sleep on the floor and I won't bother you!"

"Don't you have your own room?" I ask

""Mow you see the funniest thing happened to me last night, well it wasn't really funny but my neighbor took my room and locked my out of it. I feel bad for asking you but I kong want to be out here when "they" come out."

"The men?" I ask startled. Maybe he's normal!

"Yeah, Jimmy got eaten alive when his neighbor kicked him out an I would hate for that to happen to me! Im trying to last the rest of my time so I can get back to my family."

"Okay, but you get the floor."

"Thank you so much! Ill never forget it!"

We talk the rest of the day about our old life and what we will do when we get out. Its nice not having to think of being in here and death and everything else wrong with the system. When it was time to go lock ourselves into my room safely from the world we talked about safety precautions as we walked up to my level on the balcony and I opened the door.

Chapter 7

We get situated and I lock the door, the window, the door again and shove the dresser in front of the door. Im not taking any chances tonight. It was to close last night. 

Before I fall asleep I make sure Joel is still asleep on the ground which he is. So I fatally convoke myself to fall asleep. I wake up to the feeling of my bed moving like someone is getting on it. I don't dare open my eyes. I already knew who it is… Its Joel. I feel him grab the covers off of me and I feel hid cold hand move up my side to my chest and back down into my pants. I want to scream but he will provably kill me before I get a workout so I just lay there as he takes off his pants and does what he did to het in here. When the sun comes up he jumps off the bed puts he's pants on and leaves. He doesn't know it but I cried before I left my room, not that he would care anyway.

Chapter 8

I take a seat next to the fire and eat my eggs slowly savoring every vote until Joel walks over.

"Good morning sleepy head how did you sleep?"

"I slept fine until the part where you raped me!" I started out calm but it just got louder to the point that I was screaming.

"Well what else do you think I was going to do in your room? I sure as hell wasn't going to sleep" He says with a laugh. I pull the blade out of my back pocket from the fight yesterday and held it to his neck.

"Woah there sweet heart, no need for violence! Plus I know you don't have the guts to so your can just stop your little act."

"I guess your right , I don't." I back away from him then lunge at him stabbing him right in the heart. Blood gushes everywhere but I don't care. 

Thats the last thing I remember.

Chapter 9

When I wake up Im sitting in a natal chair with my arms and legs chained to it. A man in a suit walks in and sits down not saying a word. He gets his papers organized the clears his throughout.

"Do you know why your here?"

"No"

"Your here because within five days of being on death row you have killed two people. Am i correct with this accusation?"

"Yes, but they touched my first"

"Is that so, I notice that there ate blade wounds in both victims did you stab them? And with what intention did you stab them?"

"Yes I stabbed them with a blade.The first one…"

"The female?"

"Yes the female, she tried to stab me first. And the second one, the male raped me." He writes on his paper then says

"Besides that we noticed that your behavior was normal at night and during the day. Your also told the truth to the questions so we are going to let you go back home. Do you have any family you would like to contact to pick you up?"

"No. I want to start fresh."

"Okay, then this officer shall show you out."

As I walk to the door I can already fast the freedom. I need to hurry up and finish my list that I wasn't able to finish when I was sentenced to the death row. My hit list. Oh by the way, the reason why I got sentenced to death row wasn't because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I killed thirty six people. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a lot to catch up on.