Serial: "Hawkins County" Chapter 2 - Nostalgia of 1970s Americana (continued)

"Hawkins County" has a dual story line until well into the second act. You have already met Pat O'Connor, the delinquent teenage boy on the run from the law. The premise of his story line: Can Pat O'Connor continue to elude capture by law enforcement for probation violation? Now in chapter 2, you will meet Jack Johnson, a nerdy college student whose live becomes enmeshed with Pat O'Connor's in way the two can not yet imagine. This is the second story line, with Jack Johnson being the antagonist to the protagonist Pat O'Connor. 

A few others were full of something too, something other than hope. One of them was Jack Westerville Johnson, the Westerville part coming from his mother's side of the family. He described himself as 23, blond, horny, hung, blue eyes, 5'11" and 145 pounds with blood pressure of 110 over 70 in a self-image essay he completed for a psychology class. 

The girls who knew him described him as funny, pixie-faced with a button nose and a few well=placed freckles, charming, sexy, and very cute. His mom would agree with that assessment, for everything about Jack spelled mischief and made people smile when they saw him approach. She could not accept Jack's self-assessment though. She had no idea what his blood pressure was. 

Jack was about to receive his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. He chose this major because it was an easy degree for him to earn rather than out of a dedication to the principles taught by the discipline. Jack charmed and partied his way through all four years of college, even managing to dodge the military draft because of his flat feet, but along the line he made the mistake of acquiring 192 credits. Today, with graduation upon him, he realized that unless he wanted to keep leaching off his folks, it was time to start earning a living. (to be continued.)

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