I opened my eyes slowly and winced at the throbbing in my head which I'm sure had something to do with the brandy from last night. The fact that according to the annoying red numbers on my alarm clock it was 3:45 in the morning didn't help either especially since Mark and I hadn't gone to sleep until one am. I sighed, well it's not like I hadn't functioned on less sleep, then again I thought most days didn't involve an impending sixteen hour drive to North Carolina. The only good thing was that according to dad's "schedule" I wasn't due to take the wheel until early afternoon so maybe...