A few hours later, on the courtyard, a lot of prisoners have gathered there to take a fresh air, play basketball, go to the improvised GYM equipment, run on the track field, stay on the bench or casually beat each other out. On the benches' area, there are those two cellmates who have become friends since this day.

They stay there, and look at the match of basketball between west wing and south wing. Both of them have put a thing as a bet on south wing that it will win this match. Lenard has put his pair of black socks he got into the pack with his prison uniform, and Rodriguez has bet his fedora hat, even though he doesn't wear a hat. Other inmates have put real money from drugs or using stolen food from the Cafeteria as an income source.

Lenard has started to adapt quickly to this prison lifestyle. He was scared at first, but now, that he is a friend with a strong man, he is feeling somehow safe. Also, Rodriguez teaches Lenard a boxing move he learned when he was young and goes to fighting training houses to learn to fight moves if a bully is attacking him or a friend. Rodriguez teaches Lenard the move called Hook and Jab, two moves which are thought as the first moves in the beginner courses. He did well those moves to the boxing sack on the empty cell room which is used by some other cellmates as a boxing room training since this is the only place where a boxing bag it is stored and used in these types of trainings.

Anyway, Lenard and Rodriguez are screaming of happiness after south wing has managed to score another two points. Right now south wing it is at an advantage of 24 points, while the right wing it is really in a bad shape.

The inmates who are presented at the spectator area cherish for south wing to continue and show no mercy on the right wing, while the spectators of right wing are terrified to even cherish for their team, because the south wing it has a huge number of spectators, and most of them are strong people who could rip someone spine without a sweat.

"The game it is going well for south wing!" says Rodriguez to his new friend, Lenard, who is also feeling quite happy, but he still sacred cause of this place.

"Yes." responded Lenard to Rodriguez after he used his left elbow to grab his neck, but in a friendly gesture, not an attack.

"You have already get over this place, right?"

"... Somehow." says Lenard after he was freed from Rodriguez who, again, used too much force on him, and he was close to kill his cellmate, again. "Anyway. What happens if it ends on a draw?"

"Do you think it will end on draw?" responded one random inmate who overheard Lenard, he laughs, and then he tells him. "At the state of right wing, it will even be impossible to make twelve points right now."

And he was right, the game ended with the defeat of right wing who were 63 points behind south wing which was 129 points. The game was not even balancing for right wing because these dudes have lost an important man to their team. No, he wasn't the one who got killed earlier, the man they lost has been freed for good behaviour, and it is now probably outside, sleeping with a hooker or travelling around the country, who knows? Maybe he is trying to commit another murder to get back into this prison?

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Inmates who bet on south gate have gathered their reward, then started to share the amount of prizes they won. And the people who bet on the south wing was also Henry, even though he is from north wing, he has done that because the people there can be easily intimidated. Just try to break someone finger, and they became your puppies or simps (If we do speak in Thots, Hoes, Gold diggers and Karen terms). Rodriguez won a pair of shoes, a bandanna and a cupcake from the Cafeteria. Lenard won a pair of shoes, the black socks he used to beat earlier, and an empty notebook to write something on it. In some prisons, they can free you earlier if you start writing stories, and they will like it. Hell, they might even award you with a few apples as a good boy.

Lenard and with Rodriguez are headed back to their cells to store their rewards, but then, Henry stopped Leonid by walking and asked him.

"You are Lenard, right?"

"Yes. My name is Lenard Szakacs."

"Zsaskaka?" he asks Henry.

" Szakacs."

"Szaham?"

"Sza-kac-s!"

"Sza-kaka-s!"

"Eh. Close enough. Now tell me, what do you want it, man?" asks Lenard, feeling a little annoyed by this Henry who stopped him.

"Well. You remember when we were in the bus, right?"

"Yes. We got here today. How I could forget it?"

"Good point. But this not what I am asking you."

"Then. What is it?"

"C-Could we exchange cellmates?"

"It is not possible." responded Rodriguez who heard our conversation, and he looks at Lenard as a father looked at his son when he present his first friend. "New friend from day one?"

"Perhaps." responded Lenard jokingly. "Anyway, why you wanted to do it?"

"I-It is because I live with Smith."

"Smith Tattoo Man?" asks Rodriguez. "The man it is a wholesome guy, even though he raped three teenagers and put them into a pit of alligators, then he masturbates to them while they were eating alive by alligators."

"... What?" asks Henry, who is feeling like me, astonished and disturbed.

"You get used to these kinds of people. Didn't your mother teaches you to not judge a book after their cover?"

"My Mom has died three years ago due to cancer." says Henry to Rodriguez.

"I am very sorry. Here." he handed to Henry five dollars. "Use these to buy something nice from Larry Shopper. He is on the Cell 34 West. He got a big cell where he sells cigarettes, morphines, beer and everything else."

"Are you serious?" asks Henry, taking those five dollars bill. "Five dollars for a beer?"

"Technically it is fifty cents here."

"Fifty cents?!" asks Lenard and Henry being shocked at this price.

"Even in Czech it is cheaper than here." says Lenard to Rodriguez (20 czk = 0,92 American dollars).

They talk a little with Henry, until all three of them are departing and go to do their business. Leonid and Rodriguez are going to their cells to spend the rest of this day there, since they didn't have anything good to do now. Rodriguez told Leonid that this day it is a free day, which means they did not have to some work on the underground like doing laundries, do the envelopes from the outside or cleaning the prisons by using a dirty broom. Or going outside to smash a few big rocks until they became only dust. Rodriguez admitted that job was pointless, and the guard did it to see if one of the prisoners would snap and proceed to create trouble or try to kill themselves. Rodriguez also told Leonid:

"These guards are so savage, that they even enjoyed a transgender being rapped by muscular men, and on the next day, the transgender killed himself since on prison, it doesn't matter if you have a dick or not. If you have a hole, then you are fucked. And if you are virgin. You are literally dead."