Life is a fairytale (Adaptation)

Part 10

"Is Mom going to be safe?"

"Can you think of a safer place to be than a hospital during a storm?" "Washington D.C?"

"Yeah, and that's where we're going. Did you lock the doors?" Jiyong asked. Jennie nodded.

"Get in the car, we have to go."

The traffic to get across town was pretty awful. They picked up Jisoo in front of her dorm, she had three bags to toss in the back. Jisoo had just started her Freshman year at Tulane. She had made an appearance at the Kim dinner table both Sundays since she moved into the dorms and it wasn't unusual for Jennie to get home from school and find Jisoo with her head in the fridge and a pile of books on the table. She was the big sister Jennie never wanted.

"Who say's you get shotgun?" Jisoo said as she climbed in the back. "I was here first," Jennie smirked.

It took nearly an hour to get out of the New Orleans metro area and onto I-59. They broke out of traffic sometime after 7PM with 16 hours worth of driving to go. Jiyong's co-workers were fleeing for Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Tulane was evacuating students to Jackson State University in Natchez, Mississippi. Jiyong figured if he had to be away from home for a week, he would spend it with family and Marco had been adamant after reading reports that he wanted Jisoo as far away from New Orleans as possible.

Jiyong and Marco had been talking daily since the storm formed. He wanted them to leave on Friday but had to wait for Tulane to release the students.

The three of them chatted about nothing until they stopped to fill up the gas tank in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where they loaded up on snacks. Once back on the road they played the License Plate game until they realized that it wouldn't be anything but Louisiana and Mississippi fleeing the storm until they got further north.

Jisoo fell asleep not long after they left Hattiesburg. The hurricane parties on campus and in the city were too much fun to pass up on Friday night. She also knew that if she got some sleep now, she could take over for Jiyong in a few hours.

Jennie fell asleep in the passenger seat a few miles northeast of Tuscaloosa, she stayed awake so she could shout "Geaux Tigers" out of the window, it was getting close to midnight. By the time they made it to Birmingham she was snoring lightly and Jiyong was on his own. He turned on the radio and immediately wished he knew where Jennie stowed her iPod. He turned the radio back off and dug around in the console for some Hendrix.

Dara called as they got into Knoxville, TN. Jiyong had pulled off into a truck stop and filled the tank. "Hey, beautiful," Jiyong said answering his phone and sliding out of the driver's seat.