"Hilton, Paris. Number 11669. Isolation cell #3," the voice rang out in her head, over and over again.
A goddamn number. How on earth did they think that they could reduce her to a goddamn number. Fucking dumb cops and their stupid little jails and uniforms. She couldn't believe that they would assign her a number and make her wear these terrible clothes. With an exasperated sigh, the young blonde waif slapped the whitewashed stone wall behind her.
Her agent had promised her that they would get her into a three star hotel at worst. Looking around, she felt betrayed. There were two sheets, one toilet in the rear of the cell, and a bolted down metal frame that was to pass for her bed. The whole thing seemed surreal. They just didn't sent people like her to places like this.
Everything had seemed like it was going so well, like the lawyers had said it would. Her sentence would be reduced. They might even let her off altogether. Then the complaints had started, and the judge had made her an example for young people everywhere. "Don't Drink and Drive!"
Fuck it all, she thought, her slender well manicured nails slipping through her hair. She straightened it and toyed with it, trying to pass the hours.
The itchy clothes and shitty bed would keep her awake the entire first night in jail. By morning, she was groggy and pissed. When her cell door had clanked loudly she had bolted from her seat, muscles suddenly informing her that they were sore from the lack of exercise and stretching. Tapping the back of one knuckle against the door, the other hand on her hip, she waited for what the clank would bring.
A large wall of a man stepped into view and pulled the door open.
"Prisoner 11669. Step forward please," his deep hollow voice echoed.
Paris gave him a little bit of her trademark strut when she stepped out into the hallway. Dumb minimum wage rent a cop she thought with a smirk.
"The beds here suck," she mentioned.
"I'm sorry," he replied, his voice bemused with her complaint. "We'll have to change that for you, Miss."
"Thank you," she replied, her voice suddenly prissy. She sensed the sarcasm, but two could play at that game. "Where are we going?"
"Breakfast," came the one word reply.
"What's for breakfast," she queried, her voice still a caustic whip. Apparently the wall didn't want to talk any more, so the only sound was the heavy footfall of his boots in time with the whisper of her slippers.
The walk was not too long, but it was depressing in the endless silence and repetition of scenery. Paris thought the worst thing about prison was how drab it all was. Even her onesy uniform was a drab grey with her number written on it. She picked at the black screen printed numbers as she walked.
A large hand grabbed her bicep and pulled it down. "No need for that 11669. Destruction of prison property is a violation of the penal code."
Paris smirked. Penal code, I'll bet. Probably some slang joke among these guards for their tiny dicks.
When they finally did arrive in the mess hall, Paris was the only one.
"Where's everyone else," she asked. She had always thought of prisons as noisy bustling places. This one seemed downright bland.
"You're in isolation, and because of your," cough, "celebrity status, you won't be intermingling with the rest of the population," came human wall's response.
Paris didn't grace him with a reply. Instead she focused on the simple red plastic trays that were piled high. She took one and slid it slowly down the food line. Nothing was discernible. There was some white mush, some more white mush with some orange flakes, and then black little discs that may have been pancakes.
"I think I'll pass," she groaned as she realized exactly what tortures she would have to endure over the next twenty-six days.
The old woman behind the counter gave her a scowl. Paris scowled right back. Fucking loser.
The guard once more took her by her elbow and marched her down the long sterile hallways to her cell. By the time the heavy steel door clicked behind her, she felt exhausted. Even the shitty cot sounded good. But to her dismay it was gone.
Whirling towards the door she yelled, "Where the fuck is my cot?"
There was no reply.
"Fucking asshole," she yelled into the solid cold expanse of the hall.
Still nothing.
She spent the next few hours on the floor, against a rough hewn wall, her knees pulled tightly up to her pert chest.
When dinner time came around, she was pretty steamed. Another loud clank of the door and the Human Wall was in front of her. His nameplate said Devlin. She liked Human Wall better.
"Prisoner 11669, please step forward."
Obediently she stepped from the cell, her backside aching from the harsh treatment of the last few hours.
"Where's my bed," she grumbled.
"You didn't like it," his smirking voice replied.
"That piece of shit was better than the floor."
"Well, you need to get used to the floor."
"Fuck you. I want to talk to my attorney."
"Can't do that," came the cool response.
"Why not?"
"You requested isolation. You get isolation. No phone calls or visits are a part of the rules. You don't get bothered by the big bull dykes, and we don't get bothered by family members, journalists, or your attorney. Isolation is isolation."
"What the fuck? I want to see my attorney," she yelled as she stamped her foot. She wheeled on the guard quickly, her eyes filled with what she considered righteous anger.
But his grip on her arm suddenly became a clamp and sharp starbursts of pain erupted from her slender bicep. She felt herself being rushed up against the wall, her back hammering into the uneven surface.
"Fuck," she cried in pain and surprise.
"Do not fight with prison officials. Do not disobey commands that are given to you. And stop fucking swearing," his voice rumbled in a deathly low and threatening manner. "Dinner privilege is suspended. Back to the cell," he said as he yanked her from the wall.
The stunned heiress' eyes went wide. This really wasn't going to be an easy month. Fuck, she thought.
Her tall slender frame shifted slightly that moment. The proud arch of her spine, the backward slope of her shoulders, and the coy thrust of her chest all folded inward. Here, unlike anywhere else, she didn't matter. And Paris Hilton, prisoner 11669, didn't like it one bit.
She spent the next two days sulking on the floor of her cell, refusing food and drink, and not leaving for any meal or exercise opportunity. Wasting away to nothing and emerging emaciated from prison seemed like a great vindication of her suffering. Officer Wall would be fired for her abuse and she would be martyred in the press. It was the only thing that made her smile.
But on the third day, the officer didn't come by. When she woke in the morning there was a tray of food beneath her cell door. She flushed the indescribable mush down the toilet and threw the platter back between the bars. It clattered loudly in the hall, and she grinned. But no one ever came to pick up the tray. In fact, no one came the rest of the day.
By the fourth day, Prisoner 11669 was beginning to feel queasy. The ability to refuse food had come with modeling, but this much of the same monotony, of nothingness was driving her insane. She still sat against her wall, but she had started to wish for just the simple command to step forward. Food did not come again.
On the fifth day, 11669 woke to find that another plate of breakfast had been set outside her door. She eagerly engulfed it, ignoring the repugnant taste of the terrible mass cooking. She surprised herself by how desperately she ate, by how quickly she engulfed it. Immediately she felt better. Still exhausted from the amount of laziness that sitting on a stone floor for several days in a row brings, she had trouble staying awake.
The sound of heavy boot steps down the hallway woke her and eagerly she slipped to the bars, her slender feminine form accented by the press of the bars against the non descript uniform.
"Hello," she called out.
The boots just kept marching, closer and closer and closer.