"Sure," Alyson said to the second new arrival in C48 of the day.<br/>"There's a barred in balcony in the common room where you can smoke."<br/>She sat up in the top bunk opposite<b>Karin </b>and slipped off it.<br/>"C'mon I'll show you around. You too<b>Karin </b>of you want to."<br/>With that Alyson walked out of the room and gave a polite nod at Marge as the elderly woman returned from the bathrooms.<br/>"That's Marge. She can be a bit gruff at times but she's cool, always cares for the ones that have a hard time adjusting to prison life.<br/>"And that mess in her cell. She arrived yesterday and well ... She has barely moved out of that position since. I think she is scared. I would be too if I were in her overalls. "<br/>Molly followed Alyson out of room C48 and like her guide she nodded at Marge too and when she looked into room C49 she thought she recognised the woman sitting on the bed hugging her legs with a piece of paper in her hand.<br/>"Isn't that the teacher who coerced her female students into having lesbian orgies with her?" she asked and Alyson nodded.<br/>"<b>Erica Marlowe</b>? Sure is. I think she is, quite rightly, expecting her first beating in here for it. That's why she hasn't moved. She thinks she is safe in her room and under Marge's assumed protection."<br/><br/>Alyson went into the common room where about twenty five women of varying ages were hanging around, playing games, reading, using the computer or simply chatting about this and that. On the barred in balcony there were another five or six women sitting around a few small tables smoking.<br/>Molly nodded to left and right as she was guided through the common room and onto the balcony. Some but far from all of the women there nodded back and one or two might even have smiled and cast eyes after her.<br/><br/>"You're not exactly unknown yourself Molly," Alyson said and mentioned that many of the women had followed her trial.<br/>"Armed Robbery for the sake of the experience, and that kiss with your girlfriend they caught on the surveillance camera. That was ... priceless. I think it has been on repeat on Youtube since it was first shown on tv," Alyson explained and did sound quite excited about it.<br/>Molly nodded and shrugged, lit a cigarette and leaned up against the railing. Day one of her sentence had just begun and there were at leas 7300 more to go. Yet there was a curious smile on her lips between drags, as if she was exactly where she wanted to be.<br/>"That was just what the cameras caught. When the cops finally showed up<i>they </i>caught us fucking in the office. Best damned sex I've ever had," Molly said and her smiled widened.<br/><br/>In Room C49 Marge squatted down in front of<b>Erica.</b><br/>"You know they will be coming for  you right? And perhaps you deserve what they do to you, perhaps you're innocent but then again there aren't many women in here that doesn't claim they're not.  The question you have to ask is whether you feel you deserve it Honey. They can't put you in isolation for your entire sentence. You'll have to make your stand at some point."<br/><br/>In the administrative area lunch was over and there was just a few minutes before the guards would be bringing down the first group from C4, Rooms nine through six, all in all twenty women serving between 5 years for theft to life for all and any major crime imaginable and as Doctors<b>Montand </b>and Xavier very well knew by now there were some rather troubled and traumatised women among them. There were to be four new inmates in first group that Monday afternoon and  it would be up to Dr<b>Montand </b>to decide who was going to share first.<br/>"This woman, Erica Marlowe seems like a high risk inmate, perhaps you should let her tell her story first. Give her a chance to give her view on what she has been sentenced for," Dr Xavier suggested as she poured herself a paper mug from one of the three thermoses of freshly brewed coffee.<br/><br/>Back up in corridor C4 Miranda Anderson and two more guards, one male and one female had just begun gathering up the women of the first group for therapy.<br/>"No rest for the wicked eh?" Molly said to<b>Erica </b>as she passed her by.<br/>"Now you'll have to explain everything that put you here all over again."<br/>Molly gave a chuckle and caught up with Alyson as they began to make their way down to the first floor of the administrative area.<br/>"Don't listen to her<b>Erica</b>," Margaret said in a kind tone of voice.<br/>"She's not so innocent herself you know."