Two weeks, it took just two weeks for Marvin to realize that being in Juvie was not exactly a saving grace. In just these two short weeks, Marvin had to fight for his life every day from boys who thought his eyes were disrespectful to others who just wanted to fight someone.

Attacks happened at every corner, even in places like the shower. Five boys cornered him because of his lax attitude around them, in reality, it was because Marvin was the new guy and way younger than them.

It was also these fights that brought Tyler and Marvin together, Tyler, despite only knowing Marvin for two weeks always had Marvin's back during the fights and Marvin was very appreciative of having the six-foot sixteen-year-old on his side.

What was really making his stay in the detention center horrible was Warden Lohan, the woman seemed to have a deep disdain for every boy in the center, Marvin had expected her to be cruel, the smile that she always showed made sure he knew that.

He didn't know how deep her cruelty extended, these two weeks he had only had a meal four times and now she was forcing the boys to live in filth, leading us to the present moment.

Marvin and Tyler were holed up in their cell on their beds because of the sewage water encompassing the pod floor.

"I've been here over four years and they still keep having shit like this" a scowl was present on Tyler's face as he looked at the brown water.

Marvin seemed impassive to his current living situation, which seemed to tick Tyler off a bit "Dude how can you still look dead while we're literally laying in shit" Tyler threw a book at Marvin's face.

Marvin saw the book fly towards his face but he didn't even attempt to block or dodge the book, "Cause the shit's not touching" Marvin smiled as the book hit his face.

Tyler laughed at Marvin's comment, "But seriously though, what happened to you, cause I ain't never seen your eyes change" Tyler's face turned serious as he shifted the tone of the conversation.

Unfortunately, before Marvin could tell his story, Lohan's voice came on the PA system "Now I know you guys have been locked in filth for quite some time, but unfortunately, things won't be cleared up for another six hours"

A swarm of cusses came from the cells in B-pod as Lohan's words were coming out of the speakers

"So all occupants of B-pod will be moved to the yard" If Lohan could hear the boys words she would probably withhold their meals again.

Despite their disproving grumbles, the boys made their way out of their cells and towards the yard, "How much you bet a fight starts?" Tyler asked as he and Marvin walked with the other boys.

"I'm betting Big G and Felton get into it again" Tyler pointed to two boys, both looked to be well into their late teens, their arms were significantly built and they stood heads and shoulders above everyone else.

Marvin ignored Tyler's wager, he reminded himself of the last three bets he had lost to Tyler. "Come on man, you think they go at it?" Tyler kept pressuring Marvin to take up the bet, but Marvin stood resilient.

Once out in the yard, the group of Boys all joined up with their smaller groups while Marvin and Tyler took to themselves.

"YOO, WE GOT A BALL OUT HERE" a boy yelled out as he held up a worn-looking football, quickly boys started rushing to the football to begin a game.

"Eh let's make this shit interesting" Big G approached the group of boys heading to the ball.

"We gone be out here for basically another six hours, so why don't we do a seven-on-seven tournament" Big G put out an idea for the boys to pass the time, which most of the boys were slowly agreeing to.

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(A/N: A seven-on-seven tournament is when teams made up of seven people play a game of football against another group of seven people. It's seven people on defense, with seven people on offense but one person on offense has to play center.)

Upon hearing the announcement Big G made, Felton started also approaching the other boys which caused Tyler to start smiling, "Aight I'll put six packs on it then" Felton said as he put out six cigarette packs.

Despite cigarettes being contraband in the detention center, there was still a small amount of them coming into the center, making them a form of currency in the center. Felton also put in six packs setting the total prize pool to twelve packs of cigarettes.

"They're definitely going to get into it when they start playing," Tyler told Marvin as Big G and Felton began to assemble their seven-on-seven team. Marvin looked at both of the boys again, they had a natural aura that caused everyone else to look at them in fear, 'Their body really makes them dangerous.' Marvin thought in his head.

"Yo, y'all down to play?" Two boys walked toward Tyler and Marvin, they were light skins that had dreadlocks reaching down to their shoulders. T

hey were far taller than Marvin but were slightly shorter than Tyler who was six foot, four inches. As the boys asked their questions, Tyler looked at Marvin to see whether he had any interest in playing, but as usual, there was no visible expression on his face.

"Nah boys, we gone sit this one out" Tyler spoke for both him and Marvin and rejected the light skins request.

"Why not, it's twelve-packs and y'all tough enough to sit a man on his ass" The boys didn't seem to wanna take no for an answer and they kept on asking. "Say we do join up, we'd still be missing three other people and we don't even know you dudes" Tyler pointed out the lack of numbers in their team.

"Nah we got people, and I'm Carlos, that's Twiz, and Jordan and Dame are waiting on us to get back with people" Carlos was quick to explain that they had already formed a team and to make sure that Marvin and Tyler joined quickly they told them that they just need them to play defense, "We just need defense and lil bro would be center."

Tyler took a minute to think about their offer but Marvin still looked disinterested looking towards the other teams start making their plays.

"We should do it, we can't just sit outside for six hours, well you can but I won't" Tyler talked to Marvin, trying to convince him but he did not need to, as Marvin didn't have much of a care.

Carlos led the group to meet up with Jordan and Dame who were two Mexican boys with buzz cuts, they were shorter than Tyler and Carlos but were still quite taller than Marvin, "Oh shit, we playing with them" Jordan's excitement was written on his face as Carlos came over with Marvin and Tyler.

Tyler greeted both guys as Jordan started talking about the vicious fights that Tyler and Marvin had gotten in, "You guys are bad people, shit we might just win it all" Dame hopped into the conversation, hyping up the fights Tyler has gotten in.

"Alright, Imma head to Elliot and register us," Carlos said and began heading to the center of the football field to put the team in the tournament. "So you gone be the center" Twiz came over to Marvin to make sure he understood his position on the team.

Twiz was initially freaked out by Marvin's dead eyes when he looked at him, but he simply reminded himself of the size difference between himself and Marvin, "Alright, you know the rules right?" Marvin nodded no.

While Marvin knew most of the rules in football and understood the way seven-on-seven football was played, he wanted to get a quick rundown on rules just in case it was played differently here.

Twiz didn't also seem to mind as he gave Marvin a speedy run down on what his role in the game would be,

"Okay so, all you gotta do on offense is give the ball to Carlos from a kneeling position, everyone on the sidelines is gonna count the four seconds for him so you ain't gotta worry about that" Marvin nodded along, so far everything seemed similar to the other games he had seen.

"Now on defense, we play two-hand touch, and everyone is gonna try to say they didn't get touched, so you gotta be extra forceful, you understand" Marvin nodded again, he wouldn't try to put anyone on the ground, doing so would probably be seen as disrespectful and probably cause him future troubles.

"Y'all done talking" Tyler jumped into the conversation, "Cause Carlos is here which means it's about to start" The boys made their way towards the approaching Carlos, who told them how the tournament would be going down,

There's a total of ten teams, four teams will play in first and due to each game only needing forty-five yards, they'll run simultaneously to one another.

Six teams will be playing in the second round and a draw will happen to determine which six teams get to skip the first round. From then on it's a simple game with only four teams progressing to the third round, then two teams to the final.

"Alright, hope y'all ready, 'cause we play to win" Carlo pointed at Tyler and Marvin but Tyler just laughed at him, "Don't worry, we chilling" Tyler smiled.

(A/N: Two-hand touch is when a player has to get two hands onto a part of a player for it to count as a tackle. Also, let me know what you think of the story so far and what you want improved)