“Don’t pay them no mind,” lisped a stranger wearing a midriff top and booty shorts cut from the standard issue uniform. “I’m Lola,” shared... the slender, medium-brown, vertically-challenged inmate. They sat down.Lola said, “You look pretty. We’ll just paint your face a little and fix these rags.”“Okay,” the newcomer stuttered.“So Kijani is a pretty name. Where’d you get it?”“I picked it a few years ago. It means ‘green’ in Swahili.”“Oh. Your eyes!”“Partly. It was more for me to own my. Naanum akka mugathai paarthu sirithen, pinbu amma udan gawri akka pesi kondu irunthaal naan vazhakam pola akka soothai paarthu rasithu kondu irunthen. En manathil akkavai ooka vendum endra ennam manathil oodi kondu irunthathu.Gowri amma udan pesivitu ezhunthu kathavu kita vanthaal, appozhuthu naan en paathi viraitha sunniyai eduthu sendru aval soothil vaithu theithen. En sunni 6” thaan irukum, athai vaithu theithuvitu sorry akka endru solinen. Naan aval soothil sunniyal urasum pozhuthu yarum. I felt humiliated, enough to start silently crying as tears of humiliation fell from my eyes.He ordered the commanders to leave as both of them existed the room. I thought he had finally decided to pity me. Boy was I wrong. He told me to get dressed and take a shower and get cleaned so that I could me ready for the night. I thought to myself why no. Its not like I’m some innocent damsel in distress. I got into this mess because of sex, so naturally, I’m getting out of it with sex. Plus I only. She never wore those Mary Janes to work again, though. Six months later, and they hadn’t made an appearance. I mean, I loved seeing her in any heels, but those, well, for some reason they’d really made an impression. In fact, I often found myself thinking about how she looked that day and how I would love her to show up to work dressed like that again. As time went on, we found ourselves flirting with each other more at work. Nothing serious, just mild flirts that nobody would think meant.