The Money

Money is something necessary to survive, that's why I took the easiest path and decided to carry those packages attached to my body. My name is Adrián, and at that time I was 21 years old, I had truncated my studies in systems engineering due to my girlfriend's pregnancy, I needed money and my brother-in-law Danny, 30 years old, offered it to me, I didn't know that everything would end so badly for me, my nervousness was evident from the beginning, I was an easy prey for the police who checked my bags and finally my body, finding 3.5 kilos of drugs that I intended to take to Spain, they inspected me in the most humiliating way, checking every orifice of my body, from then on my memory becomes confusing, I only know that I ended up betraying my brother-in-law, I was taken to preventive prison and then, after two days, I was imprisoned awaiting trial in San Lucas prison, my wife abandoned me and moved to another city, while my family gave me some money to survive inside the prison.

Being young and of good appearance (I'm 1.71 meters tall, light brown skin, black hair, and a slender body of 67 kg), I had never lacked women, I had the usual fear of being raped in that place, as soon as I arrived at 10 in the morning, I was led by one of the officers through the narrow corridors, and between bars, I could hear whistles and shouts from the inmates who said things like "fresh meat, new ass, inaugural hole," etc. With each step I took, I trembled more, I looked at the floor so as not to see the faces of those men and notice the terror reflected in my eyes.

Finally, we arrived at one of the cells on the second level, there the officer opened cell number 258, and pushed me inside, I was left standing with a bag containing my clothes and some clean sheets, I saw two bunks in front of me, which meant I would have three roommates, but none of them were in the cell, when I was about to sit down in the only chair that was in the narrow cell, I heard a voice that confirmed that my nightmare was just beginning.

"So, I finally get to see you, brother-in-law..."

"Danny..." I said, surprised.

"I arrived a few days ago, I've been waiting for you to thank you for betraying me."

"I thought you had fled to the provinces..."

"I was doing it, but they intercepted me, look at the bruises they left me – he showed me the blows he had received on his face and torso – they told me that you had betrayed me."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, you know I did it all for your sister, but now I'm screwed."

"We're both screwed, I'm a repeat offender, so it's likely that I'll stay here for about five years, while you'll probably get out in two. Your apologies don't mean anything to me."

"It would be better if we got along, after all, we're family," I said in a conciliatory tone.

"Hahaha," Danny laughed. "There's no point in that, I know your sister has already abandon...