This is Why Jonas Doesn't Deserve Attention By: Asher (The Giver)

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Occupation: Director of the Recreational center
Age: 12
Asher's clumsy, fun, and good-natured person.
His Best friend is Jonas.
He likes and plays baseball.







     Hello, I'm Asher and I'm here to tell you the real thing about Jonas. But, I'm going to start from the beginning. It was an ordinary morning. Take my pill, and eat my breakfast. Then, I went off to school. But, while biking my way there I saw the crew, separating salmon. I was distraught and had to watch. Then I realized I was going to be late and rushed to school. I told them the story and the teacher accepted my apology and said that distraught was "too strong" of an adjective to describe salmon separating. More like distracted, I like that word. I mean, I usually mess words up but I'l try and remember that. Well I mean it wasn't the most exciting thing in the world. But, I was a little discouraged because I was corrected. I don't know why I just hate being corrected and not looking smart. Sometimes I wish I could be smarter. Well I mean I'm not dumb but definitely not the smartest one. Everyone laughed at first which I was as little sad of. I mean, I was being serious. Anyway the ceremonies were getting closer and closer. I was still excited for that!

     Well, Then the ceremonies started to get nearer every day I was so pumped! So I started working more volunteer hours for me to get assigned to a job. I went to the house of the old, Fiona was there too. We were just scrubbing down some elders when Jonas arrived. He took a glance at me when I said hi and then stared at Fiona for a few seconds. A few days later the first ceremony began. I was just watching the families get a new baby. When Fiona gets her baby brother, she sits in the row in front of us. Then, she turns around and says she likes her little brother but not the name. I, myself thought Bruno was an OK name. When the younger children's ceremonies ended I got excited for the next day, my turn! The next day arrived, everything went as planned and then it was the Twelves turn. When they got to me they told the story of when I was younger and instead of asking for a snack I asked for a smack. After a while I started to stop talking. Until I finally said it right. Then they said my job, the Director of Recreation. But they seemed to have skipped Jonas as they approached and left his number. After all the kids got their jobs I was worried for him. Then the chief elder apologized. "Phew," I thought as he was getting his assignment. He was assigned the Receiver and everyone made a big deal about it. I'll admit now I was experiencing a weird unexplainable felling, like I wanted to be Jonas.

     After that we still went to school and did homework. We didn't hang out as much anymore. After my training I was tired and had to eat dinner. We still rode bikes to school sometimes and talked a little. But he would not talk about his training. As the days went by he started acting strange. Jonas was telling me to look at some flowers the other day and said they were different. They weren't different at all. They were just the same thing, in the same place. Jonas started acting crazy. I was frightened by his actions and all this crazy talk. It seemed like he was trying to get released. I felt like Jonas wanted to give me some sort of message. But I didn't know what! I wasn't sure about him. We kept drifting away, but that's how my family unit said it would be. All the group mates and friends will soon drift apart and get their spouse. But, I didn't think it would happen right after. Then, I realized it hadn't happened yet, it was just with Jonas. But that wasn't going to stop them from playing around like the good old days.

     A few days later, school was passing, I did homework, Jonas started acting weirder than he already had been. That was the only thing bothering me. Until one morning, while completing some homework, an announcement came on. It said we had an unscheduled holiday. I was so excited. I asked my parents if I could go outside and they said yes! So I zoomed to the field and found some of the other kids. We decided to play good guys and bad guys! Then, all of a sudden Jonas came. We finally started playing together again! Then, Jonas just stopped playing. Did he really think he was too high for us and wasn't childish enough to play this? He was still a 12! I was mad, I shot him and told him he's dead but he just said, "Stop." Then all the kids came out of cover. Of course Fiona comes and asks him what's wrong. I came up to him and told him he was ruining it. I automatically said, "I'm sorry I didn't give you the respect you deserve." Still irritated Fiona asked him if he wanted to ride along the river bank with her. I felt like she was becoming his new best friend. As days went by the new ceremony approached. After a while he didn't seem to talk to me anymore. But we were still best friends. I'll admit I did get mad at him at him. But I realized that it's probably the strange feeling that made me feel that way towards Jonas. I now knew he was probably struggling with his training and needed more time.

     My training was starting to get a little harder when I started practicing what to do when I need to change activities. and where to put signs. I also get to clear the board and put my little league games up! So now I won't forget. I also have to put signups. The ceremony was getting closer and closer! I couldn't wait to see all the new twelves! I was getting a little too excited for something I wasn't going to be in. I still had tons of homework and the practice I had to do. So I was a little busy too.  But sometimes I just rode around. Then, one day as I was biking around. I saw Jonas go into the building he worked in. I might be able to visit. So, I went in and asked for Jonas. They said he couldn't come out and was in the middle of, "Special training." There goes that idea of visiting him. I just left and I didn't see him bike back home later. Maybe he took a different route, that's it. The ceremony was closer and I hadn't seen Jonas that much, we were pretty distant. But I did see him near the food supply sometimes and the gate to elsewhere. I was wondering why but thought it to be nothing. The day of the first ceremony I didn't see him. Jonas wasn't anywhere, but he might've been with his parents. Then, after the ceremony Jonas' parents came to me. They said they haven't seen him the whole ceremony. He might've been with Fiona I suggested. But he probably left. Then the man that trains Jonas said he left. How dare he! After all we've been through. He just left to elsewhere. I'm not sure how I felt. I felt sad and angry. Jonas was probably thinking he was better than us and wanted all this attention for leaving. "I hope they catch Jonas," I thought to myself.

This Is the Link I use to sign up for my Hobby. I use this for online Recreational Center.

I love looking at scores to see if I got close to any real scores in one of my games.

I'm not so good at playing myself but like to see baseball cards of people's stats.

Going up to bat is my favorite so I have to get the best baseball bat!

                                                 This is the recreational center I work at.