Chapter 15: Terrible News
Marcella waited in the holding cell. No one came even near her. She tried to ask why she was getting held and whether they would let her go. But no one answered her.
When that didn’t work, she screamed at the top of her lungs, asking for one phone call. She shouted that she was held there unlawfully.
But that didn’t work.
She didn’t know how long she was there. The room had no windows and the lights were on. She was hungry, tired, and hurting. Her worry for her sister made everything worse.
Her sister has a one-month-old baby at home! How is that poor baby holding up without his mother?
She wanted to cry but her tears had dried up. Never in her life did she feel this helpless. She felt like everything around her was crumbling.
Her stomach hurt. She wanted to go to the toilet. But looking at the dirty stainless-steel monstrosity in the room, she felt like throwing up. She curled into a ball and faced the wall.
She heard noises around her. In the holding cell next to hers, there was a drunken man who was shouting profanities. The guard slammed the bar with his torch and that didn’t stop that man. He went on cursing everyone he knew.
Marcella wanted to be anywhere but there.
After what seemed to be an eternity, a cop came to her. Marcella ran up to the bars. He offered her a cheeseburger and fries with soda.