The Circle

Another day in the circle, a maximum security cell for only men. It is a place for the most dangerous criminals in the world, and Collins Mufasa happened to be there.

It all began when he lost his father due to a terrorist attack. The millis attacked his coast in 1985,then, his father was amongst the army who fought in the war, they blew up the entire coast in less than two hours of their arrival and the coast stood no chance of defeating them.

News began to fly across the country after the attack, that the millis had colonized the coast and enslaved everyone. Collins Mufasa's father died in the war and he was the only one Collins really had at that time. He was still young then, about twelve years of age.

(Ten Years Later)

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"W𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙞𝙣'𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙚𝙖𝙩? " Collins said, after noticing that his aunt Mellisa wasn't eating, well this was the first time they ate together in a long while, so his aunty's feeding system was not really in his dictionary

" 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚." Mellisa said peacefully, thinking that he would care less about it, but she got the opposite.

" So this is what you've been doing all these years huh..." said Collins, dropping his cutleries hard on the table, while squeezing his eyebrows as his dark eyes began to turn a shade darker.

" I - I o-only did what I felt was right." She stammered, after feeling a sharp pierce on her heart due to the choleric behavior from Collins.

" Aunt you work all day on the field, in the factory, and in the millis fucking maternity home, and you do not eat a single crumb..... So all this while you sacrificed yourself to feed me." Collins said with tears sauntering down his chin.

" I..." She tried to utter another word, but Collins pushed the food slowly down to her side of the table.

" I am old enough to fend for myself aunt, I'm no longer twelve years old, infact from now on I'll be the one doing the feeding." He said while standing up from his seat, pushing it aback with force, causing it to crash onto a wall, while his face kept a squeezed look, with his eyes popping out as he walked out of the room peevly.

" Collins..!!! " she called, but he kept walking off with deaf ears.

Tears rolled vigorously down her chin , as she fell slowly from the chair.

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Few days ago Collins had signed up with a gang after he met with a food supplier named Jimmy who was in charge of the food supply in the coast. Jimmy used the opportunity to steal foodstuffs from the millis so that he could feed the coast better than the millis had been doing. He had been engaging in this act for years and luckily for him, he was never caught.

Jimmy was sick and tired of the way he and his aunt were treated by the millis, so he had to join the gang to make sure he changed that.

The gang were the coast's heroes, known for saving the coast from inhumane starvation which made Jimmy feel good joining it.

" Drive along the main road, we have to pick our new member, Collins." Jimmy said to Max who was driving the truck.

" Who the heck is Collins?" Max asked confusedly, Jimmy had never told Him about Collins, this was the first time Max heard of him.

" Well Collins Mufasa is a good dude in his early twenties, his father was one of the soldiers who fought at the war front. He is tall, and dark in complexion, quite handsome and muscular as well, he's a little bit skinny, but that doesn't mean he isn't good for the job, we could use him." Jimmy described.

" Jesus Jimmy, you should have told me we're gonna be having a new member." Max said in a glowering tone, with his eyebrows tightened upwards.

" I just had to keep it to myself, cause I wasn't really sure about his joining." Jimmy replied instinctively. Max then gave Jimmy a quick glance, then rolled his eyes around and maintained his focus on the road.

You could almost touch the silence in the truck, as they both stopped speaking to each other.

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Collins sat quietly on a pillar, awaiting the arrival of Jimmy, with a cigarette stick burning in between his fingers. All that ran through his mind was the last word his father said to him on his deathbed. " BE BRAVE AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF."

Those words lightened his heart and gave him a punch of motivation on the face, after giving a wide thought on what he was about to do.

Sooner, Max and Jimmy arrived with the truck.

" Get in, butter cup." he said with a growling tone, as Collins attempted to walk into the vehicle.

"And don't bring that cigarette stick into my truck." he said, with a tougher growl,which pushed fear into Collins's heart. He immediately threw the cigarette stick into the bush,while maundering the vehicle.

" So what's the plan?" Collins said after a five minute drive, trying to shatter the silence that existed in the vehicle.

" Well, Jimmy has decided to kill us today." said Max in a sarcastic tone. Max was Jimmy's close friend, who had been working with him in the gang for years.

" What!!!, I didn't sign up to die, but to eat healthily." Collins said, sensing the sarcasm in Max's tone but he still had to ask.

" Alright here is the bullshit, we normally steal from the millis with wheelbarrows and some shit ass containers, but today Jimmy here, decided to use a big ass truck, with a whole lotta rough noises, so he could get himself foodstuffs that would satisfy the coast for months." Max said with hand gestures, his face was fixed with a scowling look, maintaining a body language that expressed anger.

"Well that seems greedy." Collins said while screwing his neck to the window, trying to avoid Jimmy's look, but a tough growl that screamed fear into he's heart, brought his face back to Jimmy's position with speed.

" And if you fucking talk to me in that manner, I'll throw you outta my truck.... You shouldn't even be talking, all you gotta do is watch and ask no silly question." Jimmy said, while attempting to swallow Collins up if he could.

" Well no offense Mr. Jimmy, but your idea is really bad, there are a lot of night guards on the watch, we might get caught." Collins said with a cold look brushing down his face.

" Shut your word hole bastard, or I'll shut it up myself." Jimmy said with a look that slapped Collins on the face, Collins had to back off with his words, knowing that the moment was leading to an exchange of fists.

"Ok that's enough kids, let's just concentrate on the tax at hand alright, no need for baby fights." Max said, playing the conflict breaker.

They had successfully gotten to the extraction point, Collins kept watch on the road, while Jimmy and Max did their stuff, everything went as planned.

" See!!! Everything went as planned, no bitch night guards, just us and a beautiful truck full of food." Jimmy said with a cheeky tone, kissing his lips as he sucked a mango which he had taken personally for himself.

" Now all that is left is for us to take it to the tunnels." Max said while walking backwards to get to his own side of the truck..

" How are we going to do that?" Collins asked knowing fully well the dangers that lurked in on them, he began to feel uncomfortable with the whole idea, but worst comes to worst, a man gotta do what he's gotta do to survive .

" We'll take the shortcut to the coast, I'll drive." Jimmy said while still sucking the mango seed, even when it was left with just the seed.

" That's risky, the night guards normally surround that area at night." Collins replied confidently, while sauntering closer to the vehicle.

" Hey boy, you don't tell me what to do okay... We don't wanna get noticed so we take the shortcut and that's final." Jimmy said while throwing the mango seed into the bush, as he walked into the truck and started the engine. Collins had nothing else to say, but he followed them.

His eyes met with Max who was already gazing at him, awaiting the moment that Collins would notice his gaze. He raised both his shoulders and then heaved a sigh that brought them down, then he jumped into the truck with Collins going after him,to sit closer to the door.