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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 203 Unlucky Bucky
Buck Jeffers stared at the bar's TV screen and tried not to laugh. An elderly couple was telling a reporter that they were glad their son's killer had gotten life in prison because they wanted him to suffer every day.
There was a misconception about prison; it wasn't hell every second of every minute of every day. Once you got used to shitting in front of your cellie and watching your cellie shit in front of you, it wasn't that bad assuming you belonged to some kind of group that provided protection.
The food was terrible, but that was where his prison pen pal girlfriends helped out by giving him money so he could buy anything he wanted from the commissary. He ate ice cream every night. There was nothing miserable about that.
During the day, he got to work out with weights in the yard and now had the best body of his life. People who thought prison was horrible, needed to face the cold hard fact that even in prison, it was possible to find some moments of happiness. It wasn't all misery and rape.
Death Row was real punishment though. In-mates were dependent on their attorneys to save their lives. Just having to work with an attorney was torture. Add to that, in-mates didn't know if they would die or if the state would kill them. It was a race in slow motion to see which would happen first. The whole uncertainty of the future weighed on their minds.
That was it. He wasn't going to think about prison anymore or whether the death penalty was a good idea or not. It had nothing to do with him.
He was just going to keep enjoying his first day out of prison by having a beer in a bar a couple of blocks from the grimy hotel he'd checked into two hours ago. He even had a new friend named Steve who bought him chicken wings and beer. He had always found it easy to make friends.
He finished his beer in a gulp. A fresh beer was put in front of him before he even asked. Everything was going right for him.
In the morning, he was taking a bus to visit one of his prison pen pal girlfriends. She was going to buy him a car and give him some money. She thought they were going to get married and he knew he was going to leave her once he'd gotten everything he could out of her.
After another half dozen beers all paid for by his new friend Steve, he left the bar. Steve was helping him walk because the sidewalk seemed to have developed a tilt while he'd been drinking in the bar.
He was standing at the corner waiting for the light to change when he suddenly found himself flying over the curb into on-coming traffic. Did Steve push him?
That was the last thought before everything went black for Buck Jeffers.