Hello everybody, I hope that you're all doing well.

While for this week we have a little bit of a shorter episode than usual, but the stories

in it will definitely make up for it. I hope you're ready for it. Let's get into it as we

drift further into Mr. Creve's mind.

I'm a cop and I just arrested my best friend.

Written by Barclays 52.

I've been a cop for almost three years now.

Every day, my alarm chimes at exactly at 10 o'clock.

I head to the gym, shower, prep my meals for the day and head to the station to work

the evening shift.

If it's the weekend, I may hit the bars after work with my shift, but otherwise this job is my life, for better or worse.

They warned us in the academy that the job can change you and that you'll lose most of your

family and friends. Sometimes the loss is from a difference in political views.

Sometimes it's from a lack of free time.

And sometimes from our short-tempered burst due to extreme burnout.

But whatever the reason may be, those people aren't easily replaced.

The job consumes your entire being and prevents you from meeting new people, who aren't other cops.

Wouldn't you know it didn't even take three years before my instructor's words rang true?

Well, besides for Ethan.

Ethan and I have been friends since the first grade, and even my odd sleep schedule extreme

exhaustion and lack of ability to schedule just about any plans.

He never wavered.

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