Overneighbors

2. "Today Was A Good Day" bumps through the windows as Tyler rattles the jammed driver door open. "We gotta find Ngoc Ngoc." Traci stammers hastily as Tyler reclines back in the seat. "Whatta ya mean," Tyler queries, "you said Melissa wasn't there only Shamrock." "I know" Traci fumbles grasping for worry words, "but if she didn't come home maybe Ngoc Ngoc got held up by the same people who came after Shamrock." "You haven't been able to get ahold of her?" Tyler follows along. "Is there something I missed talking with the officers?" "I heard something else," memories drift out of Traci's afternoon nap, "there were alarms going off across the street, then the backfire from the studio." "In the middle of the night? Man, that's a hot corner they live on." Tyler thinks aloud. "You weren't running stuff out of there you weren't telling me about were y...

 Chapter 1 Interbay Pílula A yellow X crisscrosses the doorway of the makeshift grocery store pallet studio.  Two officers stand between Tyler and the turned-cold body hidden behind the frame. "It's not a kid is it?" Breathless, panicked, is all he can gasp. "Sir, this is an active crime scene, we have to ask you to please step back." Tyler paces the perimeter of the tape, horror show worst case scenarios playing out in his head. He approaches another officer he thinks he's familiar with. "Sir, excuse me, please, I think I might be able to provide some information about what happened here, but I need to know is the person who died a young kid? That's my friend, I'm looking for them and I haven't seen them all night." Offhandedly acknowledging Tyler, a badge with the name "Field" pulls him aside and rummages a notepad from a chest pocket. "Sir, if you have any information about what may have occurred here I'll take dow...