Jennifer glared at him as she gave him the driver's seat. She started to walk away, "f*** this," she muttered, but she went around the front of the car and slammed her fist into the hood. She got in, buckled up and looked forward.<br/><br/>"Well, drive, if you can," she said," if you can't then move over and I will ."<br/><br/>"Do you even have a driver's license?" he demanded as he entered the flow of traffic.<br/><br/>"No, I don't. They didn't allow the foster kids to have one." she snapped.<br/><br/>The mile markers flew by and Jennifer stared out the window.<br/><br/>"I didn't lie about anything. I'm who I said, and how old I said. I don't know anything about those men. I'm just a kid who is on the road to her mom." Jenn bit the inside of her cheek to keep herself from crying. In her experience, tears or weakness would earn a beating, something she was not fond of.<br/><br/>As the sun was going down,, they pulled into Oklahoma City where the unfinished skyscraper towered above the other buildings.<br/><br/>"Someone's idea of a phallic symbol," she muttered.<br/><br/>"What's that?" Max asked her.<br/><br/>"Nothing. Just commenting on the skyline."<br/><br/>They traveled until they passed the city proper and came to a smaller town.Max veered off the highway, past a Welcome to Yukon sign and into a low rent roach hotel, Super 8.<br/><br/>"You stay here," he ordered, "We are going to have a room with a shower."  Slamming the door, he disappeared into the revolving doors. The light in the breezeway was out and only trash stirred in the lot.<br/><br/>Max came back out and drove around back where he ushered her into a room with two neat beds and some tacky art with a matador stabbing a bull.<br/><br/>"You stay here with our stuff." he ordered, tersely.<br/><br/>"Where are you going?" Jennifer asked, pushing her inky black hair from her face.<br/><br/>"I'm going to park the car in the lot of that all night shopping center across the street. Tomorrow, we will walk into town and try to catch a bus, just like you suggested."<br/><br/>"Lock the door," he said as he left.<br/><br/>Jennifer did and sat on the bed, a cloud of powdered air freshner rising around her.