Joana's Escape: An Unexpected Journey in Search of Freedom

Joana had just finished her shift at the local Burger King, and as usual, she had been working for 16 hours straight. She was nearing the end of her first year in college, and in order to make money to pay for it, she had to work two jobs. The fact that she didn't smoke or drink or do drugs helped a little, but even so, she was always tired. Today was no exception, and as she unlocked the door to her apartment, she sighed with exhaustion.

She would have to take a quick shower before going to her other job at the pet shop, but first she needed some food. She went into the kitchen and opened the fridge to see what there was. There wasn't much: A slab of cold pizza, a few bottles of beer (she decided not to drink too much), and a half-empty bottle of ketchup that had developed a thick layer of mold on top. Joana picked up the moldy ketchup bottle and looked at it with disgust. She turned on the tap and filled the bottle with water, then shook it vigorously until all the mold was gone. Joana went back to the fridge and poured some ketchup over her cold pizza slice, then took a bite out of it as she walked toward her bedroom to get ready for work.

As Joana entered her room, she saw that someone had left their clothes lying on her bed. They were obviously male clothes; they were large and bulky and looked like they'd belong to an adult man, not a young woman like Joana. She had noticed this stuff before and thought nothing of it; students often left their clothes in her room after staying over at one point or another. As Joana removed her own clothes, however, she realized that something seemed wrong about these clothes -- like something heavy lay inside them...

Slowly Joana unzipped the jacket and found that it contained something large and heavy wrapped inside it -- almost like a body! Then suddenly a man's arm flopped out from one sleeve of the jacket! Joana screamed loudly in shock! The man's arm struggled against its confinement until finally its hand ripped through one side of the jacket, followed shortly by its owner's head! "Help!" he shouted as he rolled onto his stomach and crawled out of the jacket onto Joana's bed!

Joanna couldn't believe who this was -- none other than Timmy Thompson! He had been dating her best friend since freshman year in high school, and he was now in his senior year at their university! He was still wearing his Burger King uniform underneath his coat, which meant that he must have snuck into her apartment while she was working today! This could mean trouble if anyone found out...

"Timmy!" said Joanna angrily as she crossed her arms over her chest. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry," said Timmy with a nervous smile as he looked around frantically for an escape route. "But I just wanted--" Before he could finish his sentence, however, Timmy heard footsteps approaching from outside Joanna's apartment door! *Oh no*, he thought fearfully. *This can't be good.*

"Hold it right there!" said an authoritative voice from outside the door. "Put your hands where I can see them!" Timmy started panicking; he quickly tried to hide himself under Joanna's bedsheet but realized that it wasn't big enough for both him and his body! He looked around desperately for somewhere else to hide when suddenly he saw... *Bingo*, he thought as he jumped into Joanna's closet just in time before several police officers rushed into the room with guns drawn!

"Drop your gun!" one officer shouted as they pointed their guns straight at Timmy's head while others moved cautiously toward him. When it became clear that Timmy didn't have any kind of weapon on him whatsoever (aside from his own body), they reluctantly lowered their guns slightly in confusion. "You're very lucky," continued one of them menacingly as they advanced further toward him. "If we weren't looking for this guy so badly..." He began frisking Timmy roughly while holding him face down on the floor with his knee digging into Timmy's back painfully. He then went through Timmy's pockets until he pulled out his wallet -- but instead of taking any ID or money from it, he opened it up and read aloud what was written on its driver's license: *Timothy Dwayne Thompson*, read one officer with furrowed eyebrows; *Age: 23*.

This caught everyone else off guard; Timothy Dwayne Thompson should have been 22 years old by now -- why hadn't anyone noticed this before? Suddenly one officer noticed something strange about Timmy's hairline: It wasn't receding like most men did during their twenties; in fact, apart from going thin on top, it looked exactly like how hair would look if someone dyed their hair black instead of letting nature run its course with their natural hair color. In addition to this revelation, several more things began to stand out about how Timmy carried himself -- how he never took off his Burger King uniform when spending time with his girlfriend (who owned far nicer clothing than anything Burger King would ever sell), how he acted shy around other girls even though he was supposed to be very popular among them (according to gossip anyway), how few people had actually met him face-to-face despite supposedly being such good friends with everyone... And finally -- most damningly -- how none of these people ever mentioned having seen him naked before... Despite being supposedly heterosexual males attending an all-male college for four years now...