He heads for his room, closing the door behind them.
"Just- Mom made dinner, which- she hasn't done in a while. She wanted us all to sit down and eat together. And she just started crying in the middle of it."
He sits on the edge of the bed, looking a little lost.
"Alyce was- she was being a bitch. She always is with Mom these days. They've always kind of pushed each others' buttons? But Alyce said something really awful about Dad coming home to the usual mess, and Mom just froze. And then she said Dad wasn't coming home. They were separating, and she didn't know what would happen, but he had an apartment in San Diego now, and-"
He runs his hand through his hair. "Alyce started screaming and crying, saying Mom drove Dad away, and I didn't- I didn't know what to say- and Mom kept crying and it felt like the world just kind of dropped out from under me."
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He heads for his room, closing the door behind them.
"Just- Mom made dinner, which- she hasn't done in a while. She wanted us all to sit down and eat together. And she just started crying in the middle of it."
He sits on the edge of the bed, looking a little lost.
"Alyce was- she was being a bitch. She always is with Mom these days. They've always kind of pushed each others' buttons? But Alyce said something really awful about Dad coming home to the usual mess, and Mom just froze. And then she said Dad wasn't coming home. They were separating, and she didn't know what would happen, but he had an apartment in San Diego now, and-"
He runs his hand through his hair. "Alyce started screaming and crying, saying Mom drove Dad away, and I didn't- I didn't know what to say- and Mom kept crying and it felt like the world just kind of dropped out from under me."