Your p.o.v

You follow Carl as he shows you the cells, showers, kitchen/eating room, and all that.

"And this is my cell," he says with pride. You walk in and look at the like of comic books on the desk. "It's been so long since I've seen a book or comic and read it. "

He walks over to his bed and grabs a comic book from under his pillow. "I just finished this one. You could borrow it if you want. There's a library too, I would show you it but Carol is having 'reading time' with the kids." He makes air quotations with his two fingers.

You take the comic and suddenly remembered that you still have his coat on, buttoned at the top. You try to take unbutton it with one hand but keep fumbling with it. Finally Carl steps over to help you. He gets it undone and it slides off your skinny shoulders. You look up into Carl's brilliant blue eyes. For a flicker of a moment you forget everything. But he quickly looks down, blushing.

"We should get on with the tour. I'll show you around outside, you shouldn't need a coat but I can let you borrow one of my sweaters," he says, eyes still turned down.

You look down at your tattered shirt. "Is there any extra long sleeved shirts I can have? Mines so ripped and torn so you can barely tell it's a shirt!" He laughs and holds up a hand, telling her to stay there. He walks out of the cell door and looks right then left.

"Hey, Beth! " he calls up to the left side catwalk. "You got any extra long sleeves for the new girl?"

" She has a name Carl! " she says mockingly. Moments later the sound of boots on metal rings through out the cell block. The older girl appears infront of Carl and hands him a blue long sleeved shirt. She waves and smiles a big smile at you. You smile and wave back. You hear a piercing wail and grab for your knife. But then you realize it's a sound you haven't heard in a long time. A baby.

Beth looks up and then smiles at Carl and runs off back up the stairs. Carl hands you the shirt and says that you can put it on in his cell and he'll go upstairs to help Beth. As soon as he leaves you single-handedly pull off your old shirt (which wasn't hard because it was already in shreds ) and pull your good arm through one sleeve. You painfully pull your arm out of the shirt sling and clench your teeth to not scream out of pain. You pull the other sleeve over the bandaged arm and almost black out. The pain is terrible, but you clench your teeth so hard you think they might break and let out a small cry. You pull the rest of the shirt on and carefully out your arm back in the sling.

You climb up the metal stairs to see where Beth and Carl were. Beth was at a table putting powder in a bottle and Carl sat on the floor with a squirming baby wrapped in a blanket. He looks up at you and smiles. He beckons you over and pats the spot next to him. You sit and look at the little baby.

"This is my baby sister Judith."