Weekly Writing Segments

Week 1: Eumi gets lost.

Eumi was driving along the highway, keeping an eye on traffic like a hawk. The other members of his group, the Smooth Groovers, were out at a jazz fest on the other side of town. So, he was driving away from his hometown of Brooklyn to go meet them. He would've joined them on their travel bus, but he was busy dealing with his family and said he'd come by later. Well, now that he was finally on the road, he realized that he didn't have much time until he was late to the fest, and they all reserved a spot to perform that was about to happen soon, so he needed to get there fast.

He swerved past the lanes, dodging traffic whenever he safely could, dodging idiots in traffic, and checking the stops every few minutes to see if it was his turn was coming up. After 15 minutes, his turn was a few hundred miles away, so he calmed down and drove a bit less hastily, but he still had to get there in time. However, just as it was his stop, a guy cut him off as he was trying to turn, making him lose his chance. He was seething in rage and wanted so badly to start cursing and flipping the idiot off, but he thought better of it and kept going. Surely there was another way to get there in time.

However, he had never seen this far away from Brooklyn, so he had to drive cautiously as he didn't know his way around this place. He went to the next turn, thinking he'd be put on the right track, but this road looked very unfamiliar to him. It had skyscrapers of course, so maybe he was on the right track, but then again the whole state had those. He looked around, driving warily as he looked at all the roads, though none of them looked familiar to him. He was supposed to meet the others on the street named Gatesway Avenue, but he saw nothing that said that even when he tried going in the direction his missed turn was trying to backtrack. He looked at the time and realized he was super late now, so he pulled over to a telephone box and called Jax.

Jax picked up the phone, "Hello?"

Eumi began with a worried voice, "Jax? Hey, it's me, Eumi."

"I was just about to call you! Where are you, man?" Jax asked.

Eumi grew more worried, "Look, I know I'm really late. I missed my turn on the highway after some bozo cut me off. I'm trying to make it back to you guys but I don't know where I am."

"Seriously? Alright, where are you?" Jax asked.

"I don't know, uh..." Eumi tried to find some road he was on or some landmark, "Railway street?"

"You're gonna have to be more specific than that, " Jax flatlined.

"I-I don't know, I've never been here before! This is a pop-up fest, I've never been to this part of town!" Eumi exclaimed.