Saving Pierson

I Missed You

River

I walk into the station, feeling like a train hit me.

"How do you feel?"

I walk past every single person.

Buzz...

Sighing, I grab my phone and see a missed call from Pierson, along with a voicemail. Within an instant, I listen to it.

"I'm so sorry!! I was out with my friends and didn't get back home until three in the morning and my phone was already dead! Please call me back! I'm so sorry!"

A tiny smile appears across my face and I go to call her back, but my shifts starts and I should already be on the road.

Fuck.

I grab my keys and jog to my car, driving over to Fayetteville Georgia this time. Ever since I've moved to the other side of the county, Fayetteville became so fucking far.

But I go all around Georgia so I'm used to it.

A car speeds through a red light.

Ah, my time to shine.

**

"I-I didn't mean to!!" the woman begs.

I tilt my head and raise an eyebrow. "You didn't mean to ROB best buy?"

"Exactly!"

"So you ran out with a tv and a speaker on accident?"

"Yes sir. I thought I had paid for them."

"Bitch wh- get in the fucking car." I smack my forehead and open my back door, guiding her in.

"Please officer! I have a family!"

"And so does many other people?"

"It was for Christmas! Please have some holiday spirit and kindness in your heart." she begs.

I chuckle. "I don't have kindness in my heart or holiday spirit."

"Please don't do this!!" she starts to cry.

I look at the time on my dashboard.

11:37PM

"I don't have time for this." I slide the board over the bars to avoid hearing her.

How the fuck do you accidentally rob a store?

A little laugh comes out of me.

Fucking dumbass.

Find a cop who believes that.

In fact, tell Kayne that.

He's gullible for a cop.

I chuckle at my own jokes in telling myself in my head. But really, it wasn't a joke. Kayne is a dumbass and shouldn't be an officer.

"You on the way back?" I hear over my walkie talkie on my vest.

"Holy fuck, yes!" I snap.