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Ā Ā Ā heād thought everything was fine ; his perfect family : wife heād only occasionally quarrel with and a son who never caused much trouble. and how wrong of him to think that. the news doesnāt aggravate the man more than the attitude from his boy : the overly confident demeanour as if he could easily taken on the rest of the universe. Ā Ā
Ā Ā āĀ LIFE ISNāT EASY, mark. supporting a family is hard āā not for a teenager. especially not for you.Ā youāre acting like a fucking child. itās time you learn how to be bloody responsible and āāā.Ā āĀ briefly, frustration clouds his judgement & he knows heās crossed his line. no, he doesnāt say the rest. but they both know the ending
Ā Ā Ā They'd bickered before. What teenager didn't on occasion with their parent? However, this wasn't bickering, it was well past that. Each word punctured Mark a little more, the happier confidence he'd felt quickly returning as angered confidence. Then the chance came. A chance to speak what had run through his mind many times throughout his life.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā "And what? You'll make me break up with her? Pay Beth off and ship me off to Eton like a proper posh boy? Make her not have this baby? Just because it took you so long, it doesn't mean I have to wait another 30 years before I can have kids."