Digital Detox Survival Challenge

as mine. I sat on the plush leather couch, staring out the window as the manicured suburbs gave way to sprawling highways, then to lonely country roads. My face was a blank canvas, but inside

neglect, every time they used my intelligence for their gain and then mocked me for being too serious, it all coalesced into a d

sing with a bag of marshmallows, taking a series of selfies with a pouty face. "My followers are loving

" I said, my

es and turned back to her

she was tracking the engagement on Ashley' s pre-trip posts,

the outdoor clothing brand, we should be getting a nic

d to have a sliver of unease, a faint shadow of guilt, but it was weak, easily burned away by the promi

thicker, the road narrower, then, the inevitable ha

bert said, tapping

get any service! How am I su

mly from the back. "I ha

I was also the one who fixed their computers, managed their finances, and generally kept their lives from imploding. I had studied the maps o

ast, the thick canopy of leaves overhead plunged the RV into a perpetual twilig

renda asked, her voice tight with a

ed smoothly. "It's supposed to be off-

unded a sharp bend

g and grim, they were the survivalists, the men my family had served me to on a silver platter in my last life. They wore

the RV, it was a

hey?" Ashley shrieked

n around now!" Brenda scr

pale and sweaty, but the road was too narro

red, they had argued, they had panicked, and then, in a stroke of twis

fore, the idea d

th a sick, brilliant light. "This is i

talking about?

red excitedly. "We need to give them somethin

at me, her intenti

idn't fight back, I just watched them. And when Brenda screamed the words that had haunted me, the words that fi

hter anyway! We found her, we don't owe her anything!" Bren

hurled like a weapon

lunged at me, her hands sh

the benefit of the phone she'd propped up

doorway. But as the heavy door slammed shut, they didn't see the fear in my eyes they expected, they saw a calm, chilling resolve, and they didn't see that as I fell, my hand had discreetly opened the small can