Part 1

After a fight with her brother the reader finds herself hitchhiking during a thunderstorm to get home. When the storm takes a turn for the worse she's forced to spend the night with a couple of strangers. She winds up tagging along with them as they're forced to detour around road closures prolonging their drive to Kansas. But when she gets to know them a little better, she starts to think they're hiding more than they let on and they might not be the only ones.

Warnings: mature language, hitchhiking, natural disaster, violence, injury, mature themes