Isaiah
I hadn’t taken a shower in a week.
They made everyone take showers at the same time, in a big shower room with six shower heads, with a warden watching over us. The bigger boys teased and pushed and made fun of me the first time. After that, I started hiding under the bunk bed when it was time to shower. I guess nobody even noticed that I wasn’t there. I wet my hair in the sink and brushed it back with my plastic comb to make it look like I’d been in the showers.
At dinner time, we were all herded into the cafeteria like sheep. We were given plastic trays and sent through a line, where the cooks stood with the pots of food and scooped it onto our plates. It was like school food, but maybe a little worse. Runny macaroni and cheese. Squares of pizza that were so hard around the ed
