He opened the car door glancing back at the rear of the car. It had sunk lower into a large muddy trough of sorts.
"Yeah, we are not going back up that hill," he lamented with a grimace.
"Shoot, my phone is dead. I forgot to charge it today." Ellen told him only adding to the growing pile of bad news. "What about yours."
"I didn't bring it."
"Really, a teen without their phone?" Ellen asked.
"I just would have been checking it like every thirty seconds hoping for a message from . . . you know who . . . and it would have been just a distraction and pissed me off so I left it at home."
"Hmm . . . So what do we do? Walk." Ellen asked. She was starting to get nervous and maybe a little scared, especially as the rain, instead of slackening like the forecast had called for only seemed to b
