<div align="center">(https://media.giphy.com/media/l1BgQOc1Jj7L86BA4/giphy.gif) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQtP1cJTw1c)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/g9Sbzaf.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>Life is kind of funny. One minute you can be in a warm and loving household, without a care in the world. Then within a second of mindless stupidity, it can all be taken away. This is what happened to Shin.  <br/><br/>He once had a bright future ahead of him. He once had two parents who loved him. He once had a reason to smile without a care in the world...<br/><br/>Shin was the tender age of thirteen when it was all taken away from him, in what could only be described as an act of pure carelessness; A truck driver had been arguing on the phone with his wife when it happened. The police said his parents died upon impact and the driver was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Neither were of any consolation. His previous comfortable life was gone, and within that one moment, he, like his brother, was forced to go from a teenager to an adult. <br/><br/>At first, they had so-called relatives rally around them and offered help and shelter. But that was only because they were after the life insurance, which was none existent. Their home was sold up from under them, along with their mother's store since both Shin and his elder brother was not old enough to deal with the legalities of things. To make matters worse, even when they did become old enough it would be too late to reclaim the estates. <br/><br/>Seven years on and Shin was stuck living alone. His brother had married and Shin didn't want to impose, despite his sister-in-law saying it was ok for him to stay with them. In her eyes, they were all family. However, he didn't feel it was appropriate for himself to live with newlyweds, thus decided to venture out into the world by himself. That was three years ago. Now? Things were becoming difficult and had been since he left school.<br/><br/>It didn't seem to matter where he went to work, he never lastest longer than six months. It wasn't that he wasn't a hard worker or didn't do his jobs correctly, it was more like his employers always found fault, somehow. Life had not just given him <strong>A</strong> lemon, it had thrown him an entire fucking warehouse with no way to make lemonade. <br/><br/>However, this was all about to change and prove that whatever god was watching had a really fucked up sense of humor...<br/><br/><hr/><hr/> <br/>Shin let out a soft sigh as he lent against the wall of an underground bridge and simply watched the nightlife run around in the heavy rain. He had been fired from another job yet again. Apparently, too many customers had complained about his treatment of them; something he knew was a load of bull. He had been fired so many times now that he could tell when he was being given a piss poor excuse and this was one of those. The biggest indicator was that the person firing him could never look him in the eye properly when they did so. <br/> Usually being fired didn't bother him too much but today was different. Today was especially bad due to the fact that it was not only raining heavily and he didn't have an umbrella but that it was the seventh year anniversary of his parent's death. It was around this time at night when it happened all those years ago and it hadn't stopped being difficult. It never did.<br/><br/>Shin got out his smartphone and used an app to check his bank account; he was running dangerously low on funds. To top it off the lease on his apartment was about to run out. He doubted that the landlord would renew the contract since he had been late to pay the rent quite often. It sucked but he understood the business logic behind it. It didn't mean that he had to like it, however. <br/><br/>Shin put his phone away and went back to gazing into nothingness as people and traffic went about their business in the heavy rain. The peaceful sound of rain and inner reflection was interrupted he heard the all too familiar "ping" from his phone. <em>Who could be messaging me now?</em> He pondered. Half-hoping that it wasn't his brother checking up on him or any former co-workers asking for gossip on why he was let go so suddenly. Thankfully it was none of those. It was a message that bought both surprise and joy at the same time. <br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">"Hey, dude! How are things going with you? You're still interested in a job, right? Cause one just opened up last night, and I think it's right up your alley!"</span> It was from an old childhood friend, Julie-Pierre.<br/><br/>Shin had been friends with him since middle school and while he was a bit of an oddball they had always been good friends. Unfortunately, he hadn't heard from him in a few months and he was beginning to think that yet another friend had left him. The last he heard was that he was going on some sort of road trip, so getting this text like this was a shock to stay the least. <br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">"You know me, always looking for a job! lol."</span> <br/><br/><strong>"Because I can't seem to hold one down..."</strong> He mumbled to himself before hitting the "send" button. <br/><br/>For a good few years, Shin had been like this. He would come to this spot to get away from the world whenever it had decided to take a shit on him. This place had seen him grow from a 4ft teen into a 5.11ft adult. It had seen him wear all sorts of outfits including his current smart bartender suit. The tunnel was timeless and had become the only place he saw as a sanctuary from the world full of hate... <br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">"What are the details?"</span> He added after a few minutes.<br/><br/>It's not that he didn't trust his old friend, it was that he had certain standards when it came to jobs. While he had performed a wide range of jobs, there were certain ones that he had as a big no. He hoped that this job wouldn't be amongst the "no" since he really needed the money. </td></tr></tbody></table>