039: overnight

The faint static of the radio blended with the engine's hum, hiding the soft breaths of the slumbering passengers. Checking his mirror, the driver caught his eye drifting between the road and the dreaming young woman lying in the backseat. He smiled at her reflection, curled-up into a ball much like a kitten, lost in some pleasant moment behind closed eyelids...

A stirring to his right jolted his eyes back to the road, as the passenger beside him shifted in slumber. So distracted, the driver failed to notice his suddenly crimson cheeks, or the kitten secretly smiling behind him...