Jonathan Crane

Jonathan listened to her intently as she took the apple and began to speak. His eyes finally lifted from the table and locked with hers. She was pretty, he didn’t know why he hadn’t really noticed her before. Maybe it was because she didn’t want to be noticed just like him. She did seem smarter than the average kid around here but something flashed his mind when she spoke so much about the apple itself. “Is it scared?” He asked with something deeper in mind. A small smile coming out the corner of his lips until Jere spoke behind him.

The question asked by the apple giver causes Pamela’s eyes to shift to him again, and she gives him a funny look as she replies, “It’s an apple.”  Is he actually expecting a piece of fruit to have feelings?  Not that she doesn’t appreciate the importance of it - somewhere there’s a tree which grew it so that an animal could eat it and perhaps propogate the seeds within.  All of it emotionless, and yet a beautiful part of the natural cycle.  Rather than eating it immeadiately, she sets it aside - she’ll probably save it for later - and she instead starts poking at her salad with her fork.

Jere met Jonathan’s gaze and instantly he frowned in regret. He’d just been making conversation, not attempting to steal any attention. It was just he could deal with Jonathan’s silence, it was hers that unnerved him and when she gave him a curt answer, shorter than the one Jonathan had received, he turned his gaze which had formed into a glare to his food. Forgive him for being friendly, all she had to say was she didn’t want to talk. It was like it was a hard concept or something.

Jonathan shrugged at his answer. He could have made it through the cold, but was great full for the jacket anyway. He was more looking for a way to respond that Jere had thought of him for that long. Jonathan could confess that he’d been watching Jere for a lot longer than he probably new about but he didn’t need to know that now.

Jere wondered if Jonathan knew just how long he’d been watching him. He had been watching him for much longer than even he would admit, feeling guilty that he’d pined for his attention, was jealous of Sherri for taking it. He was jealous and he felt terrible for that because if there was one person Jonathan shouldn’t like it was the girlfriend of Bo Griggs. And nothing good could come out of it. Jeremiah hoped nothing at all came out of it.