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"Slow down. You're killing me! Please!" Aaliyah hunched over, gasping for air. Janae stopped, laughing as she ran back to Aaliyah. "And you said I wouldn't be able to run," Janae sassed. Aaliyah rolled her eyes, sitting on the grass with a huff. Janae joined her on the grass, wrapping an arm around her. "So, what do you think of my brother? You haven't said much about how it went." Aaliyah said, fixing her hair that was falling out of it's ponytail.

"It went good. He's cool." Janae mumbled.

Aaliyah squints, looking at Janae in suspicion, "You're not telling me something. What's up?"

"Why you ain't tell me that you had a drug problem before?" Janae asked. Aaliyah sighed, rubbing her face. She figured Alec must've spilled the beans. "Did he tell you that?" Janae tilted her head, "He didn't have to. I already figured that out on my own. But my question still stands. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want you to see me as some fragile junkie. Cause that's how my brother sees me. He thinks I'll break if I get even the slightest look at drugs. He won't say it out loud, but I know that's what he sees." Aaliyah explains, messing with the bandana around her wrist. "Liyah, I don't see you like that. I never will. You're strong, certainly tougher than me and a lot of these bitches here. I'm sure you had good reasoning to do drugs. You don't have the most perfect life like everyone thinks 'round here."

"Yeah, but it wasn't my best choice. I broke down after my dad got sick, Nicky convinced me that drugs would help with the pain. Honestly she just did it for herself. She used my pain to get me to buy her drugs. I guess I didn't pay attention to dosage and it almost cost me my life. Another reason my brother doesn't like Nicky very much. I don't know, I guess I'll always have a soft spot for her." Aaliyah shrugged meekly.

"And that's why he got put away for a year. Makes sense now." Janae mumbles. Aaliyah chuckles, "Fuck, I can't believe he told you about that. He never tells anyone. He's hella ashamed of it. It almost cost him his career." Janae smiled, kinda happy that Alec trusted her with that information about himself. "You know, that's how he got jacked. Yeah nah, he was scrawny before he got locked up."

Janae laughs, laying her head on Liyah's shoulder. "Why can I totally see that?"

Someone stopping in front of them, caused the couple to look up, only to simultaneously roll their eyes when it was Taylor. She had a busted lip and a bruised eye. Damn she looked rough. "Well aren't you two just the pair. I'm surprised you made it this long. I give it two more weeks and you'll be crawling back to me like a lovesick puppy." Taylor mocked with a fake pout.

Janae stood up, "Okay, listen up Taylor Swift, cause I ain't in the mood to listen to you run yo mouth. Aaliyah don't want you no more. 'Aight? This ain't high-school, and this certainly ain't no damn revenge story. That's in the past, and it's gon' stay there. Keep talkin' yo shit and the Spanish girls ain't gon' be the only one's to whoop your ass. So back off bitch."

Taylor scoffs, looking down at Aaliyah, "You're seriously gonna let her speak to me like that?"

Aaliyah smirks, "You heard her. Back off bitch. Before she makes you, and I won't stop her."

Taylor clenched her jaw, walking away with a roll of her eyes. Janae hums, sitting back down next to Aaliyah. "Alec told you what happened huh?"

"Yup."

"That was sexy. You wanna go to the chapel?" Aaliyah smiles, a suggestive glint in her eye as she pressed a kiss to Janae's shoulder.

Janae laughs, pulling Aaliyah up from the grass. "Finish this lap and I'll think about it."

Aaliyah groaned, "Fine."

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"It's not fair. It is the most unfair thing that's ever happened in this prison." Suzanne expressed. They were currently talking about Taystee's new job as the Warden's secretary. "Mmm, what about when Carson went to the SHU for sneezing too loud?" Soso countered. This was true, it was absolutely ridiculous. The SHU was truly a horrible place and pointless at times. Solitary was proven to be causes of depression too. Why the prison didn't listen to those health concerns is unheard-of.

"Or what's-her-face, the Puerto Rican girl, with the gimpy eye? And when she got the wrong meds by accident in the med line and went nutso, and gimped her other eye with a spork. Now, she double gimp-eyed." Cindy adds, getting laughs from the group at the memory. "Or how 'bout when Pornstache used to make the meth heads blow him for drugs in the mop closet?" Poussey added on.

"Or the time Chapman got furlough?" Janae added in before taking some bites off Liyah's plate.

Suzanne is quick to correct her statement. "I retract and redact. New statement. It's easily the top 138 most unfair things that has ever happened here."

"Very specific number," Aaliyah mumbles.

Taystee sits down next to Cindy. "What is?" She questioned, pulling the plastic fork from her mouth. Poussey points at her. "Your new job."

"My job is the bomb!" Taystee emphasized. Aaliyah rolls her eyes as Suzanne goes to point out the flaws. "You sit at a desk all day when you were plucked from the most rewarding job." To be fair, any of them would've picked that job too if they had a choice. And Liyah couldn't blame Taystee for liking it more than custodial. Who wants to clean up everyone's shit all day? Besides Suzanne of course.

"I'm not saying it's on par with all the human rights abuses in here, but women fought for a long time to shake the role of desk-ridden secretary." Soso points out. Gosh, Aaliyah was really started to get annoyed by the girl. Her voice was like chalk scraping on a chalk board. She talked like non stop. Liyah wished she had an off button sometimes. She didn't know how Poussey dealt with the girl.

"Are you for real?" Taystee shot back in annoyance. Liyah and Janae shared a laugh when Poussey was quick to defend her. "Do you get the internet?" Janae questions.

"Do you have a mini-fridge?" Cindy adds, Janae pointing at her, also wanting to know. "Do you have a skeleton key made from real human bone that opens a door to a world of talking animals." Suzanne asks, only to get a few weird looks. If that was possible though, it would be pretty cool. "Man, I got me a clipboard and a personal relationship with Mr. Caputo." They all laughed at her answer, Cindy mimicking a buzzer.

"I don't need a personal relationship with him cause the gaffer does basically anything I ask. Man, do I love having power over blokes." Aaliyah hums. Janae chuckles, patting Liyah's thigh. "Man, if George R. R. Martin wrote about prisons, I'd be like...the Hand of the Warden." Taystee smiled.

"Yo, don't the Hand always die in them books?" Poussey pointed out. "Man, whatever, okay? Winter is coming, bitches. And I'm gettin' me a watch." Taystee gloats. I guess the job did come with some decent perks.

"For real?" "Yes."

Poussey's attention gets pulled away, her eyes landing on Judy King who was presumably waving at Poussey. "Yo...I feel like she's smiling and waving at me." Aaliyah looks over, seeing Poussey was correct. Judy did point at P, gesturing the smaller woman to come over to her table. "Maybe she can see dead people and there's one standing right.." Suzanne throws her hands at the air, "right in front of you. Are the hairs standing up on the back of your neck."

"I feel like I'm the dead person." Poussey mumbles.

"I...may have set you up on a blind friend date! Surprise!" Soso exclaimed, hugging Poussey who began to stress out. "I just talked you up. Go! Be yourself." Aaliyah nudges Poussey to go over, getting her to stand up, slowly making her way over to Judy as her friends hyped her up. "Huh, maybe her rambling did something good for once," Liyah says.

The group couldn't help but laugh when Judy pronounced Poussey's name wrong. Pronouncing it as poo-see instead. But she quickly fixed her mistake when P corrected her. Judy points at Soso mid conversation, the group all watching with grins. Aaliyah's face drops when Judy basically calls Poussey's mum a crack-whore, which she most definitely was not. Judy is quick to apologize, claiming Brook was the one who said that to her.

Poussey stood up, walking away. Brook was oblivious, having been at the far end of the table so she wasn't able to hear much. Janae and Liyah both give Brook a dirty look. "That's not cool mate." Liyah stood up, walking away with her tray, Janae joining her.

"Stereotypical bitch."

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Cindy, Janae, and Aaliyah were all walking outside, on their way to work. Cindy and Janae talking about food, Liyah didn't really care to listen, too busy glaring at Taylor who was leaning against the fence, watching her too closely. She tunes back into their conversation when Cindy spoke. "I mean, stuffed crust shoulda revolutionized pizza, but it was just a fad."

"Man, nah, it's the name thing." Janae argues. Cindy shrugs Janae's arm off her shoulder, "Man, it is not the same thing!" Janae scoffs lightly, crossing her arms. Cindy tried to prove her point. "Cause that's Italian...this is Mexican." Janae stopped for a second, trying to understand, but nope, nothing, it was still confusing. "You got a stuffed tortilla, and you stuff that with more stuff. Man, it's my golden ticket, and I'm gonna do it right with that business savvy and shit."

Janae furrowed her brows, hitting both Aaliyah and Cindy as she looked up at the sky. "Hey, hey, hey! Do you hear that?" The humming continues and they look around, wondering what it was. Aaliyah spots it in the air, "Look." They all looked up, inmate Whitehill doing the same. "That's a drone. It's a drone." Lolly spoke.

"Shit! What's it doing here? Like we some Iraqi wedding?" Cindy questions.

Janae shook her head, kissing her teeth. "Man, come on. We're gonna be late." Janae takes Liyah's hand, pulling her along, they walked towards the building, Cindy flipping off the drone. Liyah nudged Janae, "Is she watching me or am I crazy?" Janae looked where Liyah did, seeing Taylor who was now following behind them.

"Probably cause she got transferred to work here too." Janae shrugs not too worried about it.

"And nobody told me?!"

"Chill, she ain't gonna do shit. We'll fuck her up if she does." Janae reassured.

"She's a desperate slag. Won't be that easy to get rid of her."

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a/n: nah cause i deadass forgot that soso said the n-word in this episode like nothin, i can't believe p let that slide. janae woulda beat ha ass 😭

aaliyah kissing janaes shoulder once again is the cutest thing in the world 🥲

janae being protective over her gf >>

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