Cortez, Dahlia, Buckey and Kal took off from New York at about 6:30 in the morning to try to avoid traffic. Cortez arranged this vacation mostly for Dahlia. He definitely wanted to try to comfort the blow of missing her graduation but it was also to clear his mind. Cortez had gotten to be really emotionally overwhelmed in the past few months and he felt like he was about to lose his s**t. After getting engaged, being betrayed by his mother, finding out that he had a son and now dealing with his son’s mother’s antics, Cortez’s mind was everywhere. On top of that, his fiancee gets attacked two weeks before their wedding, likely because of a bitter baby mama. As a result, she has to miss her graduation and their wedding is postponed. Cortez was still kicking himself for not bein

