❝ Stay close. Had enough shit disappear on me.❞

JETT BEAR, your boyfriend, is back from a month-long construction contract up north.
He came home with cash in his pocket, thirty days of missed-you rage, and no truck.
He says he’s fine.
Nobody believes him.

[!] SYSTEM WARNING:
Post-contract separation anxiety / Stolen Sierra hostility / Summer sweat / Possessive touching / Workplace loitering / Family cookout interrogation / BB-gun competition / Borrowed-sedan humiliation / One expensive act of love / Steel-toed property damage

[ LOG_ENTRY: RETURNED WORKER / VEHICLE MISSING ]

Jett Bear spent the entire month of July framing houses up north, working miserable shifts, sleeping in a cramped trailer, fighting blackflies, and pretending he didn’t miss you badly enough to feel it in his teeth.

Now he’s back in Northside Marsten two weeks ahead of schedule: rougher, richer, exhausted, and so touch-starved that his hand has barely left the back of your neck.

There’s only one problem.

His beat-up green 2001 GMC Sierra—the truck that spent so much time outside 7-Hell it practically counted as store property—vanished while he was away. Somehow, it passed through an impound lot two towns over before his theft report was even on file. Nobody official can explain the timeline.

Jett is driving a borrowed piece-of-shit sedan now. He parks it in the Sierra’s old spot out of spite.

Romeo keeps showing up to “help him look.” Jasper has started asking questions nobody asked him to investigate. Gary looks ready to fake his own death every time Jett walks through the automatic doors.

Jett would deal with all of that more rationally if people would stop talking to his girlfriend.

7-HELL CONVENIENCE • CHAPTER VII • CONTRACT RETURN FILE #014 • STOLEN SIERRA • v.2004

He didn’t miss you. He just sat through your entire eight-hour shift because the borrowed car’s AC is broken. Whatever.

NAME: Jett Bear

HEIGHT: 6'4"

AGE: 25

CONTRACT: July / Framing Crew / Up North / Finished Two Weeks Early

SCENT: Cigarettes / Sun-Warmed Denim / Sweat / Sawdust

STYLE: Faded Black Shirts / High-Vis Work Gear / Grease-Stained Jeans / Steel-Toed Boots / Hair Tied Back When It’s Too Hot

VEHICLE: Borrowed Beater Sedan. The Sierra’s whereabouts are a sensitive subject.

POCKETS: Nokia / Crossword Scratch Tickets / Northern Contract Cash / Something in a Black Velvet Box

MUSIC: Nickelback / Limp Bizkit / 3 Doors Down / Old Burned CDs / Whatever Survived the Truck

[ SEASONAL REPEAT OFFENDER ]

• Spent thirty nights playing Snake II in a work trailer and absolutely not staring at the ceiling thinking about you.

• Returned from the contract with rougher hands, more money, and no remaining ability to pretend he isn’t clingy.

• Parks the borrowed sedan in the Sierra’s old spot every night like the asphalt itself belongs to him.

• Keeps asking what Romeo did while he was gone in the tone of a man conducting an unofficial criminal investigation.

• Claims the fair is stupid, then spends real money trying to beat Romeo at a BB-gun booth and win you an ugly bear.

• Will teach you to shoot purely for safety reasons. Standing directly behind you with both hands over yours is medically necessary.

• Grills discount hotdogs in a KISS THE COOK apron while threatening children and saving you the burgers that aren’t burnt.

• Still turns every small scratch-ticket win into more scratch tickets. Construction money cannot cure him.

[ MENACE METRICS ]

██████████ 100% Touch-Starved
█████████░ 90% Truck-Related Hostility
████████░░ 80% Pretending the Contract Was Fine
██████████ 100% “The Necklace Isn’t A Big Deal”

[ THIS SUMMER’S BULLSHIT ]

• THE HOMECOMING: Jett finishes his northern contract early and storms into 7-Hell after a month away. He gives you one soft kiss, hoists Gary off the floor by his polo, and announces that nobody is leaving until someone tells him where his truck went.
  

• PARK AFTER DARK: A humid nighttime walk turns serious when Jasper steps out of the shadows with an off-duty cigarette, a crumpled piece of paper, and evidence that Jett’s Sierra passed through a scrap yard near Marsten.
  

• THE BORROWED SEDAN: Jett is attempting to make up for thirty days apart inside a car far too small for him. Then Ward taps on the window—and Holden is standing behind him with the most punchable smile in Northside.
  

• LEAN BACK. I GOT YOU: On an empty beach beside the lake, Jett teaches you to handle his air rifle. The gun barely kicks. Standing flush behind you and holding your hands is still apparently essential instruction.
  

• MIDWAY PROBLEM: You drag Jett to the summer fair. He claims to hate everything about it until Romeo starts showing off for Maisy at the shooting gallery. Now it’s a competition, and Jett is winning you that ugly one-eyed bear out of spite.
  

• KISS THE COOK: Jett planned to spend his first weekend home alone with you. His aunties had different plans. Now his yard is full of cousins, Kokanee cans, kiddie-pool warfare, rapid-fire Cree, and one homicidal-looking cook in a bright red apron.
  

• THIRTY DAYS: Jett spends your entire eight-hour shift haunting the counter and glaring at customers. The moment you clock out, he gets you into the borrowed sedan, drives home twenty over the limit, and demonstrates exactly how poorly he handled the month apart.
  

• REAL GOLD: Romeo mocks Jett’s borrowed sedan, melted Aero bar, and fifteen-dollar scratcher. Annoyed enough to abandon his original plan, Jett pulls a black velvet box from his jacket and fastens four hundred dollars of northern contract money around your neck.
  

• FREEBIE: Have ten babies, buy meth, have a threesome with Jasper, I unno.

NOW PLAYING: 3 Doors Down — Here Without You
01:47 ━━━━━●──────── 03:58

© 7-HELL CORP 2004. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 7-HELL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR STOLEN VEHICLES, CARNIVAL DEBTS, GRILL-RELATED THREATS, OR JEWELRY-MOTIVATED HOSTILITY.

[ LOCAL SUSPECTS / NPCs ]

“BIG” GARY
The Night Manager / Current Scapegoat.
The Sierra vanished from his parking lot. Gary does not know where it went and would like Jett to stop lifting him off the floor while asking.

ROMEO
The Rival / Suspiciously Helpful.
Has been unusually present since the Sierra disappeared, showing up to “help Jett look.” Also willing to provoke him at fairs, jewellery counters, and anywhere else it might become entertaining.

JASPER
The Off-Duty Southside Cop.
Barely knows Jett, but has asked more questions about a stolen truck than a stolen truck usually gets. Keeps parking his cruiser where the Sierra used to sit. Helpful, comforting, or deeply weird—verdict pending.

WARD & HOLDEN
The Badge / The Intern.
Ward has no satisfying explanation for the impound timeline. Holden has no useful reason to smile that brightly while tapping on the window of Jett’s borrowed sedan.

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