Chief Guard Johnson was ecstatic, practically bursting at the seams with his happiness and the joy of getting rid of Charles. The memo was crystal clear, terminating Charles from his duties on May 31, 2000, just about twenty-two days away from his total dismissal, with no ce of carrying out his administrative tasks. However, the procedures were shining under bcklight, like a bright sticker listing false allegations tarnishing Billy's reputation.

  - week, you'll be on a bus headed to Arizona, - Rico, the security guard, told Billy, who had been pulled out of css by Professor Beins.

  It was like a bucket of cold water, dousing all of poor Billy's hopes, who saw Arizona as a dark storm, a hopeless escape.

  -Why? - Billy mao whisper, pletely lost in his thoughts.

  Rico just looked at the boy, ung about his dition and only thinking about the cold beer he'd have after work.

  -You've been notified. We'll call your mother and inform her, - Rico said, pushing the boy bato the , leaving Billy's spirit blindsided. He felt once again that everyone was watg him, giving him looks filled with pt and mockery. In his state of misery, he swallowed air amidst a tangle of plex emotions. His fear was all too evident, his fear was the root, and a disappoi hit him as fast as the fear did.

  -Wait a moment, sir. What am I being accused of? - Billy asked.

  Rico, who was already far away, could only stop briefly. -Just go to css, - he said loudly.

  -Darn it! - thought the boy to himself. He saw some members of Austin's gang so calm a into despair. What to do when you're just a kid? Adults talk to you like you're an idiot, nobody trusts words that e from the heart, and all that matters to adults is their pride and themselves.

  …

  All adults without exception,

  Liars and abusive,

  With their big bellies

  And their prim words.

  Damn, abusers.

  I knew one who was a teacher,

  He acted like a saint, ignnored people, Humiliated children,

  A ing bastard, with a feathered tie.

  I swear this one was a damn idiot,

  His shiny bald head, Hairs in his ears, Damn abusers.

  Be it a cop or an educator,

  They couldn't care less who's beside them,

  They just want money and a whore in their pocket. If it were up to me, I'd kick them out.

  Be it a cop or an educator, nobody listens,

  We have no voice,

  I'm not a saint, nor a man,

  But to hell with the prim people who hide the truth,

  You lie.

  You lie

  …

  He almost felt like singing it out loud, almost felt like taking it from the depths of his heart, all the words, true and wise, from his heart. He kept everything important, the pressed ahe little goodwill left towards the educators of the institution, all choked with quite a bit of hatred for the injustice he was receiving.

  Math, then history expined by Professor Beins, wasn't important, wasn't iing, and only the desire to leave the pce, the desire tet all the bad things he had experiehere, the pce he called home, the pce he had been for four months, almost the time he had to serve, out of the five months and twenty days the juvenile judge forced him to serve to clear his guilt.

  Angry Arizona, now not g about anything. To hell with the whole world, deep down he khat the only way was to get revehe revenge his heart so desperately needed, a revehat burned in his heart, pure and hard against these old zy, and corrupt men who only cared about their own money.

  -Are you alright? - or asked from the dining hall chair.

  -I'm not alright, I'm offended and irate. I have so muger submerged in my heart that only the darkness of thousands of ments calm my deep hatred. They're transferrio Arizona, and I believe it's all because Superinte Charles, the corrupt old man, mao screw me over in the end, - said Billy.

  -Arizona isn't that bad, - said or.

  -What are you talking about? Do you think I'm stupid? Bcks, whites, nines, aas are afraid to go there. Why are they afraid? y good friend, it's because the pce must be damn disgusting. The name alone is repulsive, - said Billy.

  -It's not because of that, - said or slowly. -They're afraid because Arizona is isoted, in the middle of the desert. The closest thing is nothingness, and right door are the ones aged 15 to 18, and right o them are the 18 to 21-year-olds. They're afraid because of the older ones. -

  -How do you know all that? - Billy asked.

  -My brother was in Arizona before me, now he's in jail, but before that, he was in the Arizona juvenile correal facility. He's a dangerous guy, - said or resolutely, ending the versation, adopting his usual attitude of fog on what seemed important, ign any questions, and fog ohing that seemed important.

  -Hey Carson, I heard you're being taken to Arizona, - Cole said, along with Benson and Andrew.

  Before he could utter another word, rabbed his fork from the mashed potatoes he was eating and buried it in Cole's face with force, tearing the boy's cheek, who began to whimper like crazy. or didn't wait any longer and attacked Andrew with the same fork, which he mao bury in the boy's chest, there were several punches, but the fight sted no more than a miserable sed. There was iving them a beating worthy of admiration, Billy's incredulity couldn't be matched by the puhat or relentlessly gave to the three boys, like a poisoned fury, each blow resonated. Walter, a man patrolling, tried to stop him but was hit by or with a powerful blow.

  Twuards and a teacher arrived, but an hitting them too, he received blows with the guards' batons, and wooden sticks, hitting hard. Until he stopped.

  Not only Billy was surprised, but everyone around him was, seeing or's massacre, who icked up by the guards, he just gave Billy a blood-stained smile, like a damn lunatic.

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  or was being adorhe guards were pletely irate, their words and threats ing oer the other, with great force, from beatings to the end. In every way, he could have expected beating up the idiot Cole was the luckiest.

  First, they took him to the infirmary, although corrupt, they were good guards, other people would only care about leaving him in isotion until they paid for everything that happened. Nothing else mattered but following the only singer who would lead him to success.

  -You got hit hard, kid, - the nurse murmured.

  or didn't respond, but a few mier, Andre, Cole, and Benson arrived, totally beaten up. Cole held his cheek while tears streamed down his eyes, g like a daisy, while the others just adjusted their beaten bodies with implicit shame in their eyes.

  -You go now, kid, - said the nurse.

  -Thank you, ma'am, - said or, to be taken away by the guards with excessive harshness and taken to one of the isotion cells. Not befiving a deep smile to those around him, smelling fear in the bastards.

  -Don't ugh, kid, you'll be punished for your as, - said the security guard.

  -Yonna viote me, like Superinte Charles does to kids, you damn rapist. You think I'm afraid of some damn corrupt guards who only want to sin with kids, - said or so loud and strong, that even the urned her gaze to the guards, the gym teacher, also surprised by the boy's words.

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