This is my first time writing about a dominant/submissive relationship. I hope you enjoy it.
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Erica's heart dropped as she looked at the cell doors closing loudly in front of her. This whole time she hadn't really believed it. Even after the arrest, the arraignment, the trial, sentencing, and the bus ride to the penitentiary she still couldn't believe it. She had been working to pay off an insurmountable amount of student loans and ended up writing several fraudulent checks to pay her bills on time. Her lawyers argued that her amount of debt gave her no other option but the state disagreed. She was sentenced to 18 months in an all-women penitentiary.
Erica was tall with blue eyes and light brown hair that fell to her shoulders. She had been a bit of a jock in high school and college and had a very athletic body. She didn't take shit from anybody, which had always gotten her into trouble before.
As Erica had walked to her cell in her new prison uniform the other women in the cellblock launched jeers and catcalls at her. A couple of them started chanting in unison "Fresh meat! Fresh meat! Fresh meat!" Some of the things they yelled they were going to do to her were truly disgusting and Erica had to look at the floor to hide her embarrassment and shame. She walked by a cell only a few down from hers and saw a large young woman with long, dark hair holding the bars and staring at her. She looked right at Erica and said, "You are going to be mine, bitch." The way she said it made it seem more of a promise than a threat. Erica shuddered and continued being escorted to her cell by the guards.
After the doors closed, Erica felt an urge to cry and began stifling a sob. "Are you okay?" she heard a voice ask from the back of the cell. This was her new cellmate, Tammy. Tammy was a little blonde thing with a pretty face and a voice that always sounded hesitant. She looked about ten years older than Erica, which would put Tammy in her mid-thirties. She seemed friendly and so Erica began to speak with her.
"I'll be fine, but this is going to be really hard to get used to."
"Yes it will, but I can try and help however I can."
"OK, what do I need to know to make it in here?"
"Mostly you just need to listen to the guards and try not to make any enemies. Did you see Roxie when you walked in here?"
"Was she the large woman with dark hair?"
"Yes that would be Roxanne. You need to watch out for her."
"Why is that?"
"Apparently she was a big time drug lord on the outside before she got 20 years for smuggling. She still has a lot of connections outside and does favors for the guards all the time. She practically owns this place. Roxie has tastes of a... certain distinction. So she always has to..." Tammy was trying to find the right word "... initiate the new girls."
"What do you mean, initiate?"
Tammy looked at Erica like she was dumb and replied, "What do you think? Every new girl who comes in has to go through with it. Young or old, fat or skinny, ugly or beautiful, Roxie has them all."
Besides making out with girls at parties in college, Erica had never been with a woman before. Regardless of her sense of sexuality, she certainly did not want her first time with any woman to be with a bloated slug in a prison.
"So how do I keep that from happening?"
"I don't know. It is pretty much inevitable. You might be able to get some of the guards to help you but some of them are in her pocket. And after she has you, one of three things will happen. She might decide you aren't worth the trouble to have again, and will leave you alone the rest of your time here. Or she might let you join her club of cronies. She has a bunch of friends in this block who all do her bidding and are completely loyal to her. Or if she really likes you, she will never leave you alone." Tammy started to sound really uncomfortable as she said this last part and so Erica changed the subject so Tammy didn't have to elaborate any further.
They talked into the night about their lives in the outside. It was hard to believe a woman as timid as Tammy was an accomplice to one of the largest embezzlement cases in history. She had helped her husband steal money from the company he worked for. The amount must have been huge, because he had a life sentence and Tammy had gotten 8 years. She had served two years of her sentence so far. Before they went to bed Tammy asked Erica, "Will you be my friend, Erica."
"I would love that, Tammy. I really could use one here."
"Good. I could use one too."
After that, they rolled over on their hard prison cots and fell asleep..
The next morning every inmate had to wake up and take their morning shower. Erica had showered naked in front of plenty of women before when she did sports, but it was never as uncomfortable as this. Several of the other inmates were leering and whooping at her as she lathered herself with soap and rinsed herself off. As she was leaving the shower she saw Roxie about to get in. She was openly staring at Erica's tits and ass as Erica walked by her. Roxie took her hand and smacked Erica hard across the right ass cheek, hard enough to leave a handprint. Erica glared at her and Roxie started laughing. A guard yelled "No touching!" and Roxie shrugged and starting taking her clothes off to shower.
The next few days Erica made sure that Tammy or another inmate was around anytime she was working in the laundry or wandering the grounds. She always made sure a guard was in sight as well. There was a guard who had been staring at her breasts on her first day in prison., Erica showed her tits to him and he promised that he would let her shower by herself and not let anyone else in while she was there. Tammy and Erica would stay up late into the night and talk in their cell. They were quickly becoming very close. Having a friend made it feel like Erica really would make it to 18 months.
Erica had gone five days without any incident before her encounter in the cafeteria. She had just been served a disgusting looking lunch and was carrying her tray to sit with Tammy at one of the tables when she saw Roxie coming towards her. Roxie hit the tray down with her hand, spilling the food and drink all over Erica's feet. One of Roxie's toadies, a skinny woman with a butch haircut named Blair cackled at the sight.