Authors Note: The rest of the story is going to be in Natalie's P.O.V. The last three chapters had to be edited a lot since I kept trying to write in 1st person instead of 3rd. Thank you LTJM and JenD16 for reviewing for the last three chapters. I thank you very much! This chapter goes out to you two for taking the time out of your life to write me a review for Learning To Fall!
I'm not going to be able to update for the next two weeks. Next week, I'm going to be at a church conference for the teens and the week after that, I'll be camping with the preacher and teens from my church so just warning ya! If you have an idea, please let me know in a review or a message!
Warning: Language
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"BILLY!!!!" Aunt Meg yelled as soon as we walked into her yard.
"MEG!!" Bill replied to Aunt Meg, leading Melissa behind him. She was still freaked out by the triple twisters but I personally, like my mom, thought it was awesome. Bill thought it was awesome too, but he seemed to care more about Melissa's sanity, if she still has any left.
"Day before yesterday, I was telling Jo," Meg says dramatically "how much I miss you!" Bill and Dusty laugh at this display "You haven't seen any of my new work!" Then she noticed me and mom. "Jo! Oh honey!" She kissed mom on the cheek then me on the forehead.
"Seen some action?" Aunt Meg asks Jo, who replied honestly, "You should have seen it."
Everyone, but Melissa, got around to hugging Meg. Melissa was introduced to Meg then we walked into the kitchen for Meg's home-style cooking that we missed so much.
Rabbit, aka Robert, starts talking between bites of food. "No, in a severe lightning storm you want to grab your ankles and stick your butt up in the air." Somehow, they got onto the topic of lighting.
"He's right, if you're gonna get hit, it's the safest orifice." Haynes informs us.
Then, Joey decides to be sarcastic. "Yeah, I'd like to get hit by lightning once. Ya know, see what its like."
"I'm with ya." I told him. He held his hand up for a high five and I gave it to him. Then, I pulled out my phone and started to text.
"Who are you texting, NJ?" Dusty asked me. I rolled my eyes.
"Melissa and Jen." I answered then put my phone away and started to eat.
"Hey, this is real lemonade. Hey, Meg, I'm movin' in here!!" Laurence said after he took a sip of the lemonade Meg made.
"You can bunk with me now Laurie!" I said. Laurie was my nickname for him. He stuck his tongue out at me and I repeated the action.
"You guys look out, make a space. Look out, look out, look out." Mom plops a huge chunk of beef on Melissa's plate. Melissa looks at it, almost disgusted.
"It's good, Melissa." I informed her. She still didn't eat it. Oh well, she's missing out on Meg's beef.
"God, Meg, you've got a lot of beef. Where'd you get all this beef?" Rabbit asks after he took a bite of the beef.
"Did you see my cows out front?" Meg asked. "
"No." Rabbit said while chewing the beef.
"Ohhhh!" She makes a gasping face, everyone laughs, except for Melissa.
"Ohh. Cool." Rabbit said looking down. When he looked up I smirked at him and he rolled his eyes.
"You slaughter your own cows," Dusty says impressed. "Meg! Nice." Mom plops down a bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy.
Dusty ends up putting food on Melissa's plate that she doesn't eat and mom is waiting for Bill to get out of the shower.
"Oh, pardon me gentlemen. You guys gotta see this." Bill says as he walks to the TV after his shower. He cranks up the volume on the TV.
"Well for me, it's the thrill of the hunt." Jonas says. "Man vs. nature. Having battle with the elements."
"So as a scientist, can you actually predict tornadoes now?" The reporter on TV asks.
"Well, no, they are very, very unpredictable, as some of my more unfortunate colleagues found out earlier today." Jonas says talking about our chasing team.
"Oh, turn him off." I told Bill. But, he ignored me. Haynes said the same thing but he ignored her also.
Bill turns off TV and says, "What a wiener"
"He really is in love with himself." Mom says.
Then I said, "I thought it was just a summer thing."
"He's gonna rue the day. Dude, he's gonna rue the day he came The Extreme, baby." Dusty said about my dad.
"I was just wonderin' why you call Billy "The Extreme?" Melissa asked us.
"Cuz' Billy is the extreme." Dusty said. "Bill is the most out of control son of a bitch in the game!" Preacher said after Dusty.
"No, I think I came in second." Bill says looking at mom. She sighs and turns toward the stairs but calls back, "You guys need to get some new stories. I'm gonna go clean up."
"So we get this one near Dalton-" Dusty said but was interrupted when Bill said, 'Oh, God.'
"We're way too close, and Jo got the bid on it, she's filmin' it, right. And all the sudden, out of nowhere, this shity looking valiant, comes pulling up, right in the way." Dusty says telling Melissa.
"She starts yellin'. And this loser, stumbles out of the car, he's got like, a bottle of Jack Daniel's in his hand. He's naked-" Beltzer says talking over the story.
"He's BUTT naked." Rabbit put in.
"Naked." Says Beltzer.
"NOT naked." Bill said. "I was not naked! Honestly, you're telling this story in front of Natalie?"
"She's heard worse man." Dusty said. I pushed myself away from the table and walked outside and sat on the porch step.
{No One's P.O.V}
"He's without apparel." Beltzer continues the story just like Natalie didn't leave the table.
"Half naked." Bill reasons but it doesn't work.
"Naked. So, Jo is yelling at him to get out of the way, right." Dusty says. "He just- He strolls up to the twister, and he says "Have a drink." And he chucks the bottle into the twister, and it never hits the ground!"
"Twister caught it, and sucked it right up." Preacher says. Melissa was looking weirdly the whole time at Bill. In her head, according to these people, Bill was naked and he threw liquor into a twister.
"Honey, this is a tissue of lies. See there was another Bill, an evil Bill-- and I killed him!" Bill explains to Melissa.
Everyone gets to talking about the twister, except Melissa, an hour or two ago. "No, that was a good size twister, what was that, an F3?" Preacher says.
"Solid F2." Bill claims.
"See now you've lost me again." Melissa says to her fiancée.
"It's the Fujita scale. It measures the intensity of a tornado by how much it "eats"." Bill explains.
"Eats?" Melissa questions.
Bill replied, "Destroys."
"The little encounter we had back there was a strong F2, F3 maybe." Laurence decides.
"Bet we see some F4's today." Beltzer says.
"That'd be sweet!" Haynes says smiling at her boyfriend.
"4 is good, 4'll re-locate your house fairly officially." Bill says.
"Is there an F5?" Melissa asks. Everyone becomes silent. "What would that be like?"
"The finger of God." Preacher says.
"None of you have ever seen an F5?" Melissa asks.
"Only two of us." Everyone's eyes, but Melissa, dart upstairs to where Jo was showering and outside where Natalie was.
[Natalie's P.O.V]
"WE GOT ONE, BABY! F3!! A MILE OUTSIDE PARLAINE!!!!!" I heard Dusty shouting from inside.