Emily shrugged. “Men are weird,” she mused and Hannah silently agreed. -- It took her another hour to finally say her goodbyes. She got into her car feeling strangely sad and nostalgic. While she always missed her family and friends after a visit, she never quite felt so sad about going. She wondered if maybe it was just a result of her uncertain future. Try as she might to not think about it, a tiny voice deep buried whispered about what was going to happen in a few weeks or months. How was she going to feel when she found herself cast aside eventually? How would she react to being told that she didn’t need to let herself in and be in his bed? Hannah shook her head, pulling onto the main road and noticing with rising concern an odd clanging. Just as she had worked herself up to a valid worry, smoke started pouring out of the hood, grey and billowing and blinding. She slammed for her brake and found, with startling vividness, there was no more brake.
