A few days later I am woken early like always and this time I grab my wash bag, toilet roll and a towel and head straight to the showers with my head held high not caring about anyone or anything. I walk into see a queue of women waiting for the showers, I stand in line and wait, the line moves slowly but eventually get my shower. I let the Luke warm water was over me as I shut my eyes and let my mind replay mine and Officer Bennett's little encounter yesterday.
" Hey little Red , hurry the hell up" I am brought back to the present when I see Taystee one of the friendly coloured girls poking her head round the tatty shower curtain.
" sorry...I'm finished" I say squeezing my wet hair before I get out the shower and wrap the towel around me and grab my wash bag.
" Hey little Reznikov, think you're so high and mighty because Red is your mother?" I turn my head to see a girl that I don't recognise.
" No I don't..." I say turning away and walked round to the mirrors.
" hey don't walk away from her" The tall peurtorican marches round to me and stands right next to me " I was talking to you" I turn to look at the girl.
" look I don't know what I have done but I'm sorry anyway" I say shrugging.
" don't be shrugging at me skinny bitch, your mother screwed me over and now she is going to pay and now her pretty little girl has wondered into our world and now your going to pay for your mothers mistake"
" I don't know what you're talking about she has nothing to do with me , I don't know who you are?" I say weakly.
" oh don't worry you will find out soon enough" the girl shoves me hard and I tumble to the ground " please..." I say weakly knowing that it wouldn't do anything as she is leant over me.
" get up... Get up" she snaps at me.
I struggle to get up " I'm going to enjoy this" she smirks grabbing my throat shoving me hard against the wall and I start to choke.
I feel myself getting dizzy and I feel light headed as she squeezes tighter. Just when I thought I was going to die she lets go and chucks me into a shower cubical and I fall down hard on to the floor where she starts kicking me in the stomach and head over and over. I close my eyes tight as I feel the warm blood trickle down my face. I can smell the rusted scent of my blood as I lay there helpless. I curl into a ball and squeeze my eyes tight and blocked out the pain as she lashes away at my bruised and tattered body. People slowly back away and just ignore what they have witnessed not one single person helped me.
I slowly open my eyes feeling pain everywhere, my body screaming in protest as I tried to sit up and back myself into the shower cubical and turn on the shower to block out the tears of my pain.
I hug my knees to my chest and just sob my heart out.
Feeling the water getting cold I turn off the shower and slowly get up but my body is screaming in protest. I slowly walk with as much energy I can muster and walk over to the sinks where I close my eyes and take a deep breath before I open them and gasp in horror at my appearance. My face is covered in blood and my body is clearly bruised from head to toe. I slowly open my towel to see my poor body beaten black and blue, I slowly close the towel and try with all my might to get dressed but no matter how much I tried my body screamed angrily back at me.
Once I tidied myself up I walked out of the restroom as normally as I could but I swear people knew what just happened to me because I could have sworn they were bumping into me on purpose or seemed like it anyway.
I put my wash bag back in to my dorm before I slowly walk the long corridor and into the lunch area. I close my eyes as the pain from my injuries washes over me. I join the line and glance round the room seeing the girl who beat me with a huge smirk on her face and I look further down the benches where my eyes rest upon the tall peurtorican girl who raised an eyebrow at me and I just look away. Soon it is my turn to get my food, I walk the line as they fill my tray with food. I go to take my tray when a sharp pain seared through me making me double over in pain.
As soon as the sharp pain came it disappeared, I looked up to see moms friend the extremely quiet one looking at me with concern on her face.
" I'm fine...honestly" I say the best I can and Norma nods weakly at me clearly not believing me.
I take my tray and carefully sit down feeling my body scream in pain. I put my head in my hands for a few seconds before I start picking at my break fast. I look up not really looking at anything in particular until I notice mom watching my every move. I look away only to look back over to see mom still looking at me but instead she is looking at me with concern in her eyes and this little gesture sends a pang to my broken heart. I play with my food not really hungry taking tiny bites every now and again. When I know I can't eat anymore I slowly get up and my body aching right down to the bone. I slowly tip my unwanted food in to the trash and put the empty tray and cup up,on the top into a bowl and slowly walk with as much energy I could must back to my dorm and curl up in to my bed and just wrapped myself into the covers and just laid there.
" hey you okay Nasty?" I hear the voice of Chapman ask sweetly.
" yeah I'm fine..why?" I ask removing the cover off of me.
" well we kind of noticed your weren't yourself at breakfast and even...Red was worried about you" I sigh
" like I said I'm fine honestly, look I would love it if people stopped asking me if I'm okay all the bloody time... I'm just gonna scream" I snap. I know full well if I tell anyone about earlier then my life won't be worth living but I know people can tell something has happened to me as I have a cut lip and a slightly swollen face after the attack but my face really didn't recover from my first attack from Alexander father. I guess I can blag my way out of this I say trying to convince myself.
" okay then" Chapman says sounding rather shocked at my outburst
" look I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you when you were just being kind" I say giving her a small smile.