At dinner time, Tina was alerted by a lady guard. She was a little older than her, she wore her hair in a bun, and she was built like a marine. She smiled a lot. And she was very kind with her words. She was different than the guys. They yelled and ordered you around a lot. Tina thinks about, as she recalls her first visit to the institution of hell earlier.

"Hey, it’s dinner time," CO Francis says.

Tina sits up in her cot. She then quickly puts on her shoes and ties her laces up.

"Guard, open up 69," CO Francis calls out.

The female guard in the booth opens her cell. Tina’s heart awakens from hibernate mode, as she remembers the girls that passed by her cell previously. To think of Yuneska, made her want to assault the guard before her. She knew that if she at least gave a small fight or made it seem like she was trying to harm her, that maybe she would be allowed to have dinner in her cell.

Tina watched the guard carefully, with contemplating whether or not, she would attempt to fight her. The clock was ticking and she knew the guard in the booth was watching.

Instead, she asked, "Can I have dinner in my room?" Tina gazed up into her eyes when she said this. She was hoping she’d let her off the hook.

"Why would you want to do that?" Francis asked with a chuckle. She stops when she sees how serious Tina was. She brushed it off and adds, "The girls are nice here. Way better than any other center I know."

Tina thinks about it and looks over her shoulder. Other girls were being escorted to dinner as well. She would look pretty silly eating in her cell alone. And she didn’t mind being the odd ball either.

"Come on. I promise you’ll enjoy it."

"Enjoy it?" Tina asked, smirking and rolling her eyes.

Francis corrects herself and says, "It’s what you make of it. If you come isolated and you want to be alone, then that’s what you’ll have. And if you come with wanting to improve yourself, by educating yourself, and learning from other people’s mistakes, then that’s what you’ll get from this. I advise you to grab a hold of the knowledge, Tina, because knowing is half the battle."