Y4H: The jury deliberation room (10ea)

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The big door closes behind the last juror - who sags against it and starts laughing hysterically. Several others join him, and start discussing the funnier points of the trial.

The foreman is doing his best impression of Agent Fozdyke's police-prose talk, and four or five of the others are trying to talk about the points of evidence, like the mysterious Miss Chital, and what Whitley's role was in all this - and then someone says, "Okay, okay, did you believe anything that guy said?"

Another replies, "Yeah, that part about sucking dick in the jail - that was true to life. Happens all the time. Everybody knows it."

"Yeah," says another, "But I don't think it was forcible like he said. I was watching his eyes the whole time. You could see he wanted it, for real."

Another is a little more hesitant, "Well, he did have a girlfriend..."

"Don't matter," says an older one. "A lot of 'em cover up like that. They even get married and go around with their wives and all, but they get off in private, and it's boys and more boys. They call it 'keeping it on the down-low.'"

"Yeah, but in jail, I mean, don't the big guys make you do it...?"

The oldest guy in the room says, "Guys, I gotta pee."

He's shushed - they don't want to go through the whole rigmarole with the judge - and the argument starts up again. The ones who read Big House Bunkmates are pretty sure that it's mostly consensual, kinda like a soap opera, but with boys. The ones who get their knowledge from Hardon Hoosegow, on the other hand, think it's more like a gang scene - except instead of smoking crack, they're smoking dick. The discussion between these factions is lively.

"Guys," says the oldest member. "I gotta pee."

They shush him and assure him they're almsot done. One guy, whose wife is a dedicated reader of Birthday Bottom Boy's Big Night Behind Bars, takes a more nuanced view of these things. He thinks it starts off looking like rape, but then the "victims" go off and masturbate to the memories, and they come to see that this is what they really want - so it's all right in the end.

"And I think we're all agreed that he swings that way." They are. So, there's no real problem with putting you inside - you probably prefer that anyway, and it'll give you a rest from having to pretend you're normal with girls like Ovia and Whitley. Oh, and you probably did it, anyway. And given that the old fart wants to get out and pee, what more needs to be said?

The jury is ready to render its verdict.