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I pull out the ingredients and asse water as well and sit at the tiny table next to the kitchenette A few azines sit there Neeek and Esquire No surprise there

I thuh Neeek I’ on in the world since I spent the better part of the last decade knowing nothing We had a TV in the common room, but all it played were old sitcoms from the fifties and sixties I know all the episodes of I Love Lucy by heart

When all that is left of my sandwich is a few crumbs, I wash the plate

Is Luke’s hair not naturally black? It’s so dark, but it doesn’t look fake It’s not blue black or pure black

I reach to place the plate inside the cupboard where I found it, when a rab the counter

A plate

A plate sits on the table in the common room I’ve never seen it before We’re not allowed to have anything porcelain that can break into anything with sharp edges

Anything that could be a weapon

I exalass or porcelain Not plastic or melamine, even, which we’re still not allowed to have

We eat off all paper products with food that can be hand held We’re not even allowed to have plastic flatware that can be made into a shiv

Yeah, they’ve thought of everything

So why is this plate here?

I look around A guard lounges at the front desk, but he’s not looking my way

I grab the plate quickly and hide it under my shirt, and then I make my way to my dorm room

I share a rooreen eyes, which is I assuot her name, but who really knows? Who really cares? I don’t know her real name We’re forbidden to use our real names

I knohat h

Katelyn My naet it

Now, the plate… Should I break it now? Make a weapon?

No Soht hear the crash

Under s Except it’s not box springs so e our own sheets They appear once a week, and we leave the dirties outside the roo the sheets and finding the plate

I let out a laugh

What the hell a?

Sure, I can break off a chunk of porcelain I ht even be able to immobilize someone