As if this date was to be doomed as well, my car sputtered to a stop somewhere amidst a f*****g forest. I looked at my phone, useless without bars, and cursed out loud, not that there was anyone to hear me.
I knew I was bound to be close, but my phone’s GPS had been dropping off and coming back online for the last twenty minutes, so I didn’t know how close. I hadn’t actually had any real hope that it was going to see me to my destination.
Without much choice, I started the trek to Vic’s house. For fashion’s sake, I had forgone my normal layers and opted for a thin sweater and a light jacket, and it was only a matter of minutes before I was frozen straight through.
I had no idea how much distance I’d covered, but I knew that I had left my car far behind, and the sun, which had been high
