Hotel Hell to Home Fires

Seventeen-year-old Marley Thornton was sitting in the small kitchen area of the hotel. She had her homework on the table and was trying to figure out a chemistry problem. Although her family worked, they insisted she finish school via online courses. Her twin brother Tomas James otherwise known as TJ was doing the same school assignments after work. Marley, now frustrated, stood blowing out a breath of air. There was no way she was going to figure out ‘How many moles of glucose were present in 320 mL of 5.0 M of glucose solution,’ at that moment. So she decided to go get some snacks.

The hotel was a quarter-mile from a corner gas station. Marley’s brothers and cousins told her to not leave the room in the evening, but she often grabbed food mid-afternoon for all of them. Today it was a quart of Milo’s sweet tea, half of Hunts Brothers gas station pizza, as well as a bag of mixed chocolates. She wanted to get a bag of chips but William promised they could go to the local Wally World ak