By Joshua Ryan
Chapter 13: But You Don’t Have to Pay Any Rent
I edged inside and he slammed the door. “Well,” he said, looking down at me from the height of six feet three. “I seen you before, boy. Guess you here cuz you got some more questions bout thee Program, right? Guess thee best answers gonna come from what thee Major calls experience. Doan you agree, boy?”
A chorus of laughs told me that the room, once empty except for the boss, was now filled with slappies. The same slappies I’d been watching two days before were sitting in the Scrum or leaning on their bunks, and they were all watching me.
“He doan know boss!” one of them shouted.
“Teach em boss!”
“Give em some sperience boss!”
“At least ten inches boss!”
“Shut thee fuck up,” the boss said, pleasantly. He was still looking down at me.
“Now you livin thee slappie life, boy. You know that?”
“Yes . . . I mean yes boss.”
“Awright. Time to get you gear.”
He unlocked a closet, pulled out some large bulky brown objects, and dropped them on the floor. “That you blanket,” he said. “An that you mattress. Pick em up.”
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