I flip on my turn signal and pull the car to the curb, yelling at my phone. The damn GPS … my arrow bounces back and forth across three city blocks, and now I think I just made a wrong turn. Fucking technology. Power the phone off, wait a moment, turn it back on, open the maps app, put in my address, find my way out of here…
My concentration shatters — the car’s dome light turns on. Someone is opening my car’s rear door!
What the fuck? I jam down on the lock button. The reaction is automatic and futile, the door is already open, I’m just panicking.
“What are you doing?” I holler.
A girl, not much older than me, spills across my back seat. She’s done up, or she was. At some point earlier this evening she probably looked perfect, hair, makeup, jewelry, the wrap around her shoulders, the tight black dress. Now she looks sweaty and disheveled and a little drunk. We make eye contact in the rear-view mirror. “Oh my god,” she says, “I love it when we get a cute one.”
What the hell? “Who are you?”