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Graffiti wars

Chapter 1

By Jasher Oppong-druyehPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Graffiti wars
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Raynold Danson, known as ray to his peers, releasement date 28th January 2023.

crimes: vandalism

reason: he felt like it

Though out his year in juvenile prison he started riots, played prank on the guards and bullied any inmates he sees to be weaker than him, he lacks friends or a lover and spends most of his time drawing and making origami figures, but other than that he hasn't tried to escape and does not necessarily want to join a fight only really wants to be the reason for it. he's so childish its almost like life is one big game to him.

As two guards begin to chat away about his release, Ray uses this time as an opportunity to begin something extravagant. he begins talking to a few of the prisoners. He makes them turn against each other. He was expecting them to start one of the biggest fights to date, but his plan soon back fires and they start to gang up on him. Unfortunately, before he could be sent to A n E all the guards from earlier came to stop them.

"Finally, I can return to the real world" he said in relief. "I doubt anything has changed. I mean, I know I've been isolated with no contact with anyone outside the prison, but in a single year nothing drastic could have happened."

He could not be more wrong. Rey stood before a colourless world, a world filled with nothing but sorrow and depression. no one seemed to have any interest in anyone else only the though of greed and envy. this is a world Ray does not with to be apart of.

"Hurry along kid, go live your life happily, or don't, I could not care ever way"

Rays perspective:

I thought that the world wouldn't have change a bit I mean this feels like its the great depression all over again. I walked around and asked a few people in the area about what has happened, and they stated that there has been constant feud between the two head families.

The Redsmoke family: they control all entertainment alongside 50% of all money imported into to the country. They are also a very powerful family all with great fighting strength, there youngest daughter could probably beat me in hand-to-hand combat.

The Bellston family: they control all trade imported and exported into the country. Although they try to avoid physical combat, they are the ones you should be afraid as they keep every single weapon this country owns. They constantly pick on the weak and people that do not believe they should still have what they have. They are a family of ten if you count grandparents.

Some people believe that the Redsmoke should be the leaders of this place and others believe the Bellston should, but to be honest, no one actually wants any to be in change its, more just which one they are more afraid of, a man with a gun or brute strength. And in this process we have lost half of the country's money and equipment.

I once was friends with the youngest member of the Redsmoke family, the one I mentioned earlier, a fourteen-year-old girl capable of killing a man with zero sympathy Bellatrix Redsmoke.

I received my phone back from the guards. I checked if I still had any contact with her. She was one of the only people in the world that accepted my art and also taught me a few fighting techniques. I was actually planning to use them against all the other prisoners when they were going to beat me senseless , but I would have ended up in prison for much longer. I still had her email, so I had a chance. I may be just a random teen that likes painting on peoples' walls without their consent, but I'm going to make sure this feud ends and our country returns to its former glory.

To be continued...

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