"You ride along with Dusty, okay, is that cool?" Bill says to Melissa. I slip into the back of his truck while mom gets in the drivers seat.

Once Bill gets into the truck, they all start driving, with the truck in the front. Mom picks up the radio-talker and talks into it.

"Rabbit?"

"Hang on!" Then, he pulls out a road atlas. "Uh, let's go right through Wakita, we'll take Myers Road past the fire station, and we'll take 132 to 44 east."

"Rabbit, do you know any shortcuts, let us know, we need every second!" Bill said to Rabbit as I pulled my hair into a ponytail. My white t-shirt was dirty and so were my old faded blue jeans. My converses were okay. "Okay, Rabbit, time to impress me!"

"Okay, about a mile up there's a little detour we're gonna take, a little walk in the woods!" Rabbit announces. I wonder where that man's mind is half the time.

They turn onto a winding dirt road, through a thicket. As Jo's driving over a bump, he says into radio, "Hey, its bumpy here, folks." Then he turns to my mom. "Okay, let's get you wired."

He puts a wireless mic headset on her, clipping the receiver on her shorts. "Oh, excuse me," He says. I could tell mother-dearest was enjoying him being that close. "Okay, you're on!"

"See, kids? An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations!" Beltzer says into the radio making me laugh.

"Repo man spends his life getting in to tense situations, BELTZER!!!!!!!WOOO!!" Dusty replies.

"Okay, Rabbit, what have you got?" Bill asks. I could see his blue-grey eyes, just like me; flicker around, just like I would do. Dusty told me that when ever mom looked at me, she thought of Bill's eyes.

"Okay, Bill, turn left here toward that farm." Rabbit says.

"You sure about that?" Bill responds.

"Uh, yeah. Trust me. Rabbit is good, Rabbit is wise." Rabbit says making me chuckle. The nickname Rabbit was picked up when I said he was a smart-ass.

"Christ...." Bill muttered then he said into the radio. "This is a field, Rabbit!"

"I know, keep going, beyond it, right through that brush!" Bill didn't respond. "You see that brush right in front of you....."

"Yeah, we see the brush, what's beyond that?" Bill asked. I sighed.

"Beyond what?" Rabbit asked. I knew there was a smile on his face. Annoyed, I grabbed the radio-talker from Bill's hands.

"The BRUSH! You idiot!" I yelled into it.

"Oh, um, it's the highway, it's the highway!!" Rabbit finally says. I threw it back to Bill and lean back sighing.

"Just like your dad." Mom muttered. "Where's the road Rabbit?!" She said talking into her mic.

"It should be any moment-" Rabbit said. Suddenly, we get onto the highway right in front of Jonas' group.

"You're insane Jo! What are you trying to do, get somebody killed?!!" Jonas yelled into the radio.

I grabbed the mike from her and started yelling in it. "If that somebody is you than yea. We ARE trying to kill somebody." I threw it back to Mom.

"We're gonna have to get off of this road." Bill says. Then, I realize, he's right. We have to get off this road quick.

"He's right mom." I said.

"What? This is no time to guess-" But she was cut off by Bill.

"I'm not guessing." He said. We needed to make a right turn.

"Make a right turn."

"Trust me." Bill said after me. Mom rolled her eyes. She wasn't used to taking orders from me and Bill combined. Dusty said I got my dad's ability to track a storm correctly without any machines even though, they help a lot.

"Do you want to drive?" She said to both of us. Then, we said the same thing at the same time.

"Just Turn!" I heard him sigh and I rolled my eyes.

Mom turns sharply onto a dirt road, the crew following. Then, Joey announces over the radio, "We've got a touchdown!"

"We got a touchdown, touchdown, tornado is on the ground." Laurie says after Joey.

"Where is it?" Mom asks.

"Looks like it's coming down route 33!"

"Umm," I said. "We're on Route 33!"

"Direction, Rabbit!" Mom asks after a few minutes of trying to spot the tornado.

"North, northeast." Rabbit says.

"Do you see it?" Bill asks Mom.

"No." She says.

"Do you Natalie?" Bill asks me.

"Nope." I said popping my lips at the p.

"Beltzer, we don't have a visual. Repeat, we do not have a visual! Help us out, here!" Bill says.

"Yeah, I got it Billy. It's the best motion I've ever seen! It's like the base of this fatty is about half a mile wide." Beltzer says.

"Maybe it's stalled." Mom reasons.

"No, I think Rabbit's right." Rabbit told us we'd see it once we get over a hill. "It's gonna show it's ugly face right over that hill. Jo, what do you think?"

"You gonna go for it, Jo?" Dusty asks.

"Time for deployment, guys, let's do it!" Jo says.

"Jo, we should drop Natalie off with everyone else." Bill tells mom.

"No! If you get to go, so do I!" I shouted at him. He sighed.

"There's no reason to argue with her Bill." Mom tells him. "She's stubborn."

"I'll get her ready." I said talking about DOROTHY. I slid open the back window and slid out. Hail was pounding hard.

"ARE YOU OKAY?!!!" Mom asks me, slowing down her truck.

"I'M FINE, JUST KEEP GOING!" I said as I flipped on a switch. DOROTHY's sirens go on. Reaching inside, I put on my black jacket.

"Hold on, we're almost there, we're almost there!!!" Mom yells.

"WHOOOAAAAAA!!! Stop, this is fine!!!" I hear Bill shout.

"Wait, we got to get closer, just a little closer!!!" Mom reasons as a tricycle crashes onto the windshield. "Okay, that's close enough!"

We all pull DOROTHOY onto the road as the tornado approaches. Suddenly a telephone pole falls on Dorothy, knocking her onto the road, all the sensors spilling everywhere. The tornado is gone suddenly. "Where-- Where'd it go? Where is it?!!" Bill shouts.

We hear the tornado's roar; however, we don't see it. "It's back Bill!" Mom shouts.

"It's not through yet!! You're right it's backbuilding! We've got a jumper here!" Bill yells.

Mom tries to pick up the sensors that had fallen out of DOROTHY. "It's not gonna drop anywhere near us, it's gonna drop right on us!!" Bill tries to reason with her. The tornado disappears as soon as he pulls her into the truck but she broke free.

"Jesus Christ, listen to yourself, you're obsessed!" Bill yelled. I sat on the tailgate as they argued.

"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you!" Mom yelled straight back.

"When's it gonna be enough, huh?! How close do you have to get-" Bill yelled. He grabbed her hand as she started to walk away. "Talk to me!!! Jo, things go wrong, you can't explain it, and you can't predict it! Killing yourself won't bring your dad back. I'm sorry he died, but it was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past and look at what you've got right in front of you!"

"What are you saying?" Mom asked confused.

"Me. Jo, me and Natalie." He said shocking me. I walked over to him and hugged him surprising him. But, he hugged back and I whispered in his ear, "I'm sorry for being mad Dad." Tears started to flow from my eyes as Mom walked around making sure everything was alright with the truck.