Locked up (OC)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) The sun was high in the sky and you could feel the heat on your skin, your hands wringing against the air as you enjoyed the silence that was around you. You had always been to this bench wherever things got tough or too much for you, the wooden chair being in the middle of nowhere which means you were more than likely alone whenever you came here although occasionally you’d see someone walk by. It was also where you thought about your future for a good chunk of your life with you remembering coming here the first time when the foster care system had got a bit too much for you. When you got over that you’d start coming here when school had got on your nerves and now that you had graduated you were stuck wondering what you were going to do now. College was on the table, you certainly had good enough grades to go and you were being kicked out of your home anyways, but at the...