~Dusan~(February 9 79AD):
"Luuuuuccccyyyyyy...", Maximus sang.
"Whaat?!", I asked sleepily.
"Waaaake uuuuuuuupp!", He sang back.
"Shut up!"
"Wake up or no breakfast is gonna be left for you!"
"It's not even dawn yet!!"
I woke up. I had no choice!! Maximus wouldn't just leave me alone!
"Now what?!", I asked.
"I picked the lock of this cell.", He said.
"You WHAT!! Master will kill US!"
"Yeah, so he shouldn't know!"
"What for did you do this?!"
"I wanted to take a walk."
"No way!"
"Pleeeeaaasse!!"
"FINE!! Stop singing!! It gives me a headache!"
"Ouch! That gives me a heartache!"
I took him out for a small walk outside. He ran and jumped over the compound wall.
"Hey!! Wait!!", I followed him.
He ran really fast. Still I was able to catch up with him.
"Where the hell are you going?!", I whispered.
"C'mon, let's go around the city!"
I didn't argue. He's not gonna listen anyway. He hopped around the city for sometime.
"You guys have it hard. You have to fight for your lives.... But after all these matches you've won, I am confident.", He told me.
"Confident that?"
"Confident that you won't die easily. You've won 15 matches and you're quite famous now... I am sure all the girls would go head over heels for you!"
I smiled. To myself actually. for the first time, I wanted to be free. I wanted this day to last forever!!
Suddenly I got a weird feeling in my gut. Something was wrong.
"Let's go back.", I said and dragged him.
When we jumped over the compound back in, I saw Guilford walking towards our cell. We hid behind the bushes. I took a rock, a big one, and threw it on a few mud pots, which were about 50 meters away, to my right.
Guilford heard the sound and walked towards the broken pots.
We took the chance to run back to our cell. Guilford noticed us and chased after us. I am sure he didn't recognize. But we were fast. We got in and fell down to the floor, and acted as if we were sleeping.
Guilford reached the cell, woke us up.
"Hey! Did anyone of you see two thieves 'round here?"
"No, we were all sleeping.", Kwame said, and gave me a killer stare.
After a few more questions, Guilford left.
"What the hell where you guys thinking?", Kwame asked.
I pointed at Maximus. "It was him!! He-",
"Blame yourself! What's your age, and what's his age?"
I was silent. Kwame gave me an hour long lecture.
Then we went for practice, like everyday. Kwame didn't leave me there either. He continued that lecture while fighting me.
"Ok let's forget that for now. Tomorrow you will have the entertainment fight. As you know, we both will fight in pairs. I don't know the enemy's strength. There maybe 10 of them or even 20 of them. So we need to be strong. You should be smart and not blame kids for your mistakes....."
He went on with that again.
Soon it was dusk, and we went to bed. Suddenly I got a weird feeling in my gut. I am sure you might be expecting something really serious to happen. Well yeah, something serious DID happen. My stomach got CONSTIPATED!
Yeah that's serious!! Tomorrow I had to fight for my life! And when I am fighting I can't be farting and pooping!!
I reported this to Kwame. I regretted immediately.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO EAT THAT HEAVY SPICED MEAT!! That was meant for warriors who won today's match! Nothing would happen if they have diarrhoea!! Now you...", He went in for a long time. Getting lectures from Kwame can be really frustrating.
I didn't sleep well last night. I had to constantly run to the bushes to poop. Well don't judge me for gobbling that chicken!! As a slave, you are really a veeery lucky one to even get to taste these (I stole them actually)...