The long drive (OC)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) It was 2AM, the moon was high in the sky and your night shift had just ended. All things considered being a night guard wasn’t the hardest job especially since you clocked in after closing time and left at a point where you’d be waking up before noon so you could do something with your day. It helped that the mall you were protecting wasn’t exactly the most alive place, being filled with fast food joints and a few shops which meant there wasn’t much to steal and the shops that were there had much easier to steal from analogs outside the store. The most you usually experience were drunks who had wandered the wrong way and teenagers looking for somewhere to fuck around with, both of which usually left when you told them to leave. You groaned, deciding to leave work behind you as you moved into the empty car park attached to the mall, rows and rows of empty parking spaces su...