**Allison's POV**
The silence between Yasmin and me feels suffocating, thick like the darkness outside. I can't remember the last time I've seen anything beyond the headlights of the car. It's late, way past midnight, and the world beyond those bright beams is pitch black, the kind of dark that swallows everything. The trees rise like jagged shadows on either side of the road—if you can even call this a road. It's more like a dirt path winding through the woods, and the headlights barely cut through the thick, inky blackness ahead.
