Under Influence

Chapter 1

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Jonos slapped his phone, trying to turn of the alarm. After a few attempts he finally succeeded and he removed it from the charger looking at the screen, a picture of him and his best friend making their best weird faces while at a festival.
"It's gonna be bonkers to get back to school and see the gang again!" Jonos yawned.
It was the first day after the summer holidays. There were two things wrong with this entire situation though. One, it was Monday. Second, it was 6:30 in the morning. Jonos hated getting out of bed this early, but he had to. Now after he had turned 18 last week, he had been gifted a car from his parents and now stood with the task of picking up Matty and the twins on his way to school. He had known Matthew Bellamy Livingston since they were two years old, practically growing up as brothers. The twins, Nathaniel and Julia Barhstow, had been in the same class as Jonos and Matty since first grade. This little group were like the cornerstones in a house, if one were absent, the whole group didn't function.

"Jonos Reskohl Karstle! Get your sorry ass down here asap!" Jonos' father shouted from the kitchen.
"Yeah, yeah. Let me get some clothes on!" Jonos sighed to himself.
He went through his wardrobe and pulled out a burgundy silk shirt and a pair of navy blue shorts, sliding into the clothes as he made his way out to the hallway, down the small flight of stairs and into the kitchen.
"Morning dad."
"Morning. Hey get your posture straight son!" Robert said as he briefly glanced up from his newspaper.
Jonos' father, Robert A. Karstle, was a huge man, not fat, but fit and broad across the shoulders, with dark, ocean blue eyes and steel grey hair. Jonos had inherited his fathers physical prowess, but somehow he was four inches taller, towering at 6'9". And he was athletically build, though he preferred to slump in a horizontal position most of his time.
His father however worked for his muscle. He was also the Chief of Police in Cape Town.
Jonos' mother, Emily, is a tall, slim woman, with long ivory hair and piercing ice blue eyes. She is currently the owner of the largest law firm in Cape Town.

Jonos himself had dirty-blonde, wavey, hair and stunning, mesmerising silver-grey eyes, and a subtle stubble along his jawline.

After his father told him to straighten up, he did. He didn't want to cross blades with him at this time in the morning.
Jonos walked over to his mum, who had made him Eggs Benedict for breakfast. He hugged her from behind and kissed her cheek with a whisper of thanks. She smiled at him as he went to sit at the counter. Emily then opened her pack of cigarettes and took one, lighting it as she opened a window.
"Is Lukas home?" Jonos asked his father.
"I think so, but he seems to be working right now. Understandable with his current customers, they want the game algorithms in three weeks, and he still has issues with it." Robert replied, rather bored with what he was reading in the newspaper.
"Oh, okay." Jonos said, as he shovelled the last of his breakfast down.

Jonos got up and put his plate and cutlery in the dishwasher, he then walked out on the patio, lighting himself a cigarette.

After he had finished his smoke, Jonos went to his room to get ready for school.
20 minutes later he walked out the door wearing his burgundy silk shirt, the navy-blue shorts and his black suede wingtip vans. His hair was styled in a fluffy sideswept fringe and he was wearing his vintage Ray Bans. He walked slowly towards his new car, taking in all the beauty of the deep purple 67 GTO convertible he had been gifted by his parents. He unlocked the car, settling himself in the rose red interior. He slid the key into the ignition and turned it, revving the engine. His car started with a roar from the engine, the deep rumble from the 6.2 Hemi Hellcat, capable of doing 707 hp, signaling that he was driving a monster.
He set the car in gear driving slowly out the driveway turning right. He pedalled it once he had the wheels straight and sped down Fiskaal Rd toward the southern part of Bakoven, down towards Mattys house.