The Substitute Woman on the First Night
Feeling Unable

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After hours of questioning at the police station, I was finally put into a cell with four people in it. Of course I feel scared. This is such a scary place for me. In my shadow, here my life will end. There is no hope of happiness other than living a life of regret and sorrow in a holding cell.

"God, why is my life like this?" my mind mourns the dark life I will live from today.

After being inside the cell, the 4 inmates inside still continued to stare at me sharply. It was as if they were intimidating me. Honestly speaking, seeing them like that my guts instantly felt faint. Especially when one of the biggest men called me after the police officer who drove me away. "Hi, here you are! In what case did you get to go to jail?" The fat lady waved her hand, asking me to approach her.

Feeling like I had no choice, I approached the woman with fear. But I tried to be brave. At least I don't want to show any fear so that they don't bully me as they please. "Why, Ma'am? Do I have to answer that question?"

"Eh, still a new kid here is already brash lo ya! Don't you know who I am? I'm the leader here. So, you're gonna have to obey me! Now answer the truth if I ask you not to just talk!" The large-bodied woman who claimed to be the leader of the inmates in the room suddenly shook my head violently.

I who did not accept being treated like that immediately protested to him, "Keep what do you want? It was as if asking and nooyor-noyor heads of people. Who do you think you are!" Both my eyes are perfectly rounded. Looked at the woman's face sharply. I tried to show him that I was not afraid and would not obey all his commands. Suddenly, the other three inmates in the room surrounded me. They held both my hands and my body until I felt an excruciating pain because the wounds I got when I fell down the stairs had not fully recovered.

When I was helpless in the check of her friends, the woman approached me. Even without saying anything he suddenly slapped my left and right cheeks twice.

I can only complain too. Resisting the pain and heat on both my cheeks. Even I screamed when the third and fourth slaps felt more painful than before. "Oh my God, what is life in prison like this? I really don't feel like I can handle it, would I rather die than live in prison?" I'm really desperate. There was nothing else I could think of but ending my life sooner than my destiny.

"Sorry, Sir. Sorry we were kidding again. This bias is just a small welcome for new people. Sorry, sir." The large-bodied woman continued to hug my shoulder and gave the opposite explanation to the police who examined this cell because they heard our commotion.

I tried to refute the woman's words, but I did not have time to open my voice, suddenly my neck was pressed from behind until I was forced to shut up until the police left the cell door where I was locked.

"Remember ya! Don't mess around here if you don't want to die!" Hearing the threat, I could only nod as I slowly retreated until there was no place for me to keep my distance.

I sat in the corner of the room hugging my knees and leaning my head on the hands I had crossed above it. Without me noticing, my tears began to pour down my hands. In my cry, the memories of being with Mas Denis slowly came back and forth in my mind. Beautiful memories that only leave longings that can no longer be repeated.

"Mas, now you must be happy with Mira? Even because you hated me so much, you could have imprisoned me," my mind imagined how happy Almira's life with Mas Denis now was, inversely proportional to the life I was living in a holding cell.

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