Maria Wakes Up in Jail

Maria’s head was pounding and she felt nauseous. She could already tell that this was going to be a massive hangover and she hadn’t even opened her eyes yet.

She knew that when she woke up she’d have to face both her hangover and the fallout from whatever drunken escapades her and her friends had gotten into last night. The last thing she remembered was them going to the game. They’d pregamed pretty hard in the parking lot and with the beers they’d bought in the stadium she must’ve drank so much she blacked out.

She rolled over and paused. Something wasn’t right. Behind her closed eyelids she could sense light. She’d assumed it was light coming thru the window of her bedroom but as she spun the light hadn’t changed. What was worse was beneath her she didn’t feel her comfortable bed… but something hard and cold.

Slowly she opened her eyes and was blinded by a bright fluorescent light. The room spun before her as she quickly sat up in a panic. Beneath her was a cold metal bench. It was attached to a blank white wall.

She was to stunned to speak as she took in the rest of her surroundings. Opposite her was another blank wall and metal bench. On it sat two women she didn’t recognize. One sat staring at her feet, the other laid back with one leg up.

To her right another blank wall and a half bench. A third woman sat there alone. Next to the half bench nearest to her was a stainless steel metal toilet.

The last wall wasn’t a wall at all, but instead a set of metal bars with a sliding door. She glanced at the other three women who looked to acknowledge her for the first time. All three were in Orange Jumpsuits. Glancing down Maria saw that she too was wearing the same baggy outfit. To her continued horror she realized that beneath the scratchy garment she wasn’t wearing a bra or underwear.

“Where am I!” She blurted out. Two of the women sitting on the bench’s laughed. The third, the younger woman laying back opposite her just turned her head to look at her.

“Well well well. If sleeping beauty isn’t awake. Just in time too.” A large guard had just turned the corner and stopped before their holding cell. He had a newspaper tucked under one arm.

“I ummm… there must be some kind of mistake! I shouldn’t be here.” Maria said standing up quickly and moving to the guard. She wobbled slightly as another wave a nausea hit her.

“Oh I’m quite certain you’re in the exact right spot.” The guard said with a laugh.

“No. That can’t be right. You have to know who I am!” Maria attempted to smile. Everyone knew who she was. She was famous.

“Oh I know who you are. The whole world knows who you are after your little stunt last night. A criminal.” The guard presented a wicked smile.

“What? No! I need to speak with my lawyer! I don’t remember what happened, but I’m sure I’ve done nothing wrong!”

“Nothing wrong!” Another fake laugh as the guard pulled the paper from under his arm and passed it to Mara thru the bars.

With horror Maria unfolded the paper. She hadn’t been sure what she was going to see but she was shocked to see herself on the front page.

That in and of itself wasn’t that shocking. She was one of the hottest music artists in the world so she was used to seeing herself on magazine and newspaper covers. What she wasn’t used to was the fact that in the photos on this particular paper she was naked.

Or at least it certainly looked like she was naked. Black bars covered her tits and areas below the waist. She was clearly running through the field of the game she’d attended the night before. The headline read:

“POP STAR POPS OFF! Singer Maria Perdomo arrested after streaking the field at last nights game.”

“No… that’s… these have to be fake!”

“Certainly look real to me.” The guard grinned as he started at her tits and snatched back the paper. “And the photos online aren’t censored.”

Maria was stunned. She stood there shocked unable to process what she’d heard.

“Anywho I just stopped by to tell you that the bus to the courthouse just arrived. They’ll be in in five minutes to take you over to your arraignments.” And with that he walked off with another laugh.