Twister: Calm Before The Storm

Jona's Troubles

   The next day Jo got up and headed towards class. As usual, Bill walked with her to class. ''Alright class! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, but now it is time to take your exams.'' The professor told them. She passed around papers to everyone in the class. Time seemed to go by fairly slowly, but Jo was focusing hard on the exams in front of her, hardly paying any attention to anything else. Finally the time was up and everyone had passed their exams up towards the professor. Jo was fairly confident that she would get a good grade on them. Jonas on the other hand, seemed to not be focused, so he figured he'd flunk his exams. Soon the bell had rang, and everyone got up to head towards lunch. Bill walked with Jo and everyone else, but Jonas trailed behind them. Bill could sense this, so he looked back at Jonas. ''Hey Jonas! You coming?'' Jonas peered into Bill's gray blue eyes and told him, ''Thanks for the offer Bill, but no thanks. I think today I much rather sit alone.'' Bill shrugged, and he followed Jo and his other friends. Jonas sat a couple of tables behind Jo and the rest of his friends. Meanwhile, at Bill's table, the gang was wondering why Jonas didn't show up to sit with them, especially Jonas's older brother, Jessie. ''Hey where's my bro? He usually always sits with us.'' Dusty shrugged. ''I don't know man. I don't get why he wouldn't want to sit with us, especially after the fucking awesome party we had a couple nights ago!'' He replied. Dusty continued, ''Even though my place was trashed by that twister.'' Bill looked over at Jessie. ''I wouldn't worry about him Jessie. I'm sure he'll come around.'' Jessie sighed, he looked over at all of his friends. ''Yeah I guess you have a point. I think I'm going to go to talk to him though.'' He then got up to go and look for his brother. Jessie eventually found Jonas. He was sitting at the other end of the table, away from other people. Jessie could see that Jonas barely touched any of his lunch. ''Hey bro.'' He greeted. Jonas let out a scoff, and asked him annoyed, ''What do you want, Jessie?'' Jessie rolled his eyes, clearly irritated with his brother's snide remark. ''There's no need to get snippy with me, man. I just said hey.'' Jonas glared at his brother, then he sighs. ''Sorry brother. I'm just in a really bad mood right now.'' Jessie sits down right next to Jonas. ''Do you want to talk about it?'' He asks. Jonas was so furious right now. He didn't want his brother to know what was really going on with him. That he was angry at Bill. Over Jo! He needed to think of an easy white lie. ''Sure I guess.'' Jessie looked over at his brother. ''What's wrong?'' He asked him. ''I don't know. I must be going through a case of depression. I should be fine though. I just need to be left be for awhile.'' Before anything else could be said, the bell rang for everyone to head back to their classes. ''Thank goodness.'' Jonas huffed under his breath so no one could hear him.

    The rest of the day Jonas remained avoidant of everyone, including his brother. No one could figure out why Jonas was acting this way, except for Jessie. Towards the end of the day, when everyone started to leave the campus, with Dusty usually being the first to leave, Bill went to find Jonas. Jonas just wanted to get to his dorm room as soon as possible. He needed to think about things. He wanted to try to avoid confrontation. Unfortunately, Bill had found him. ''Hey Jonas, may I speak to you for a moment?'' A familiar voice had called. Great. Just great. ''Yeah. What's up?'' Jonas replied, facing him. ''Are you alright? I've noticed that you've been hanging by yourself today. It's not like you.'' Bill asked, placing his hand on Jonas's shoulder. Jonas huffed, ''I'm fine. Just wanted to be alone for awhile. No one did anything wrong. I'm just in a bad mood.'' Then without another word, Jonas continued on his way to his dorm room. Bill was left puzzled, but he respected Jonas's decision. That night, without any storms in the area, Jonas decided that he would head out on the town, maybe that would clean out his head. He hailed a cab and headed out around Norman. His first stop? A steakhouse. He was famished, and needed to try to eat. Maybe he'd take Dusty's advice and grab a beer while he was at it. After he had his fill of Steak and mashed potatoes and gravy, he took a cab off to Norman's park. It had a lovely pond that he could sit by while pondering on his thoughts. The winds rustled through the giant oak trees, creating a peaceful environment for him. Jonas sat down by the pond and started to chuck stones into it. ''I just don't understand. How come whenever I want to talk or hang out with Jo, Bill is always there to ruin it?'' He told himself. ''It's almost like he knows that I want something to do with her.'' He continued. All was silent. This is just silly. Talking to myself is just crazy. Jonas thought to himself. He needed to think of a plan to finally get some alone time with Jo. Finally an idea came to his head. ''I know! I'll wait until after Bill walks Jo over to her dorm, then I'll knock on it and see if she wants to spend a night on the town with me.'' He exclaimed. Jonas then got up and made his way out of the park. A cab came and took him back to The University of Oklahoma. Exhausted, Jonas entered his dorm and crashed on his bed. He didn't even bother to turn the lights out.