The adults in the front went back to their conversation.
The heat started to make me sleepy, even through the hunger pains. I half listened to the voices up front, just in case something they said would jog a memory, but it was getting more and more difficult to stay awake. The trees drifted by outside in the dark, nearly mesmerizing. My mind fought hard, trying to figure out what had happened, but my body won and I drifted off into sleep.
I have only hazy memories of getting myself from the car to my room, where I fell into bed without even a shower. I slept late into Sunday, waking up glad that it wasn’t a school day. Not that Nina would have made me go, but the school thought I was enough of a troublemaker as it was. No need to miss any more days.
I groaned as I tried to pull myself
