It took Kim a lot of time to finally get herself back to Portland. After taking Nathan's money, she used it to get multiple buses and buy a disposable phone in order to call one of her friends back in Portland. For a moment or two, she wondered where they thought she had been all this time but remembered then Nathan had suggested before that the CIA would take care of that. They were good at covering things up when needed, he had stated.
Marie, one of the only close friends that Kim remembered a contact number for, picked her up from a bus station in Oregon near Portland. It took only a minute to pass by before Marie spoke. Kim was waiting for her to speak first, in fear that she may tell a different story to the one her friends had been told.
"So... How was Chicago?" Marie
