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He involuntarily rolled his eyes at his h escaped him His mother killed him with that holier than thou attitude of hers He was sick and tired of hearing about trusting God and having faith Where was God when he wanted and needed to see his father when he had to cruelly watch all of his class happily with their fathers on father and son day? What about his graduations, birthdays and Christed to see and spend tio over his friend Avery's house and watch hi a Bull's basketball gaa plays and telling hiround info about a tea when he thought about the "sex talk" his mother had clumsily had with him Hoard had his sixteenth birthday been? He couldn't stop the involuntary shudder that his body suddenly released re that time He prayed to blacken that et to be et to be the one to the right thing? How coer person?" He continued adah as she held her head and silently prayed for patience, wisdo to instill in her son a sense of fa and fas don't ht You know if you don't do this, then you'll be just like hiht now" She stopped his rant with her carefully chosen words and Jayden hated her for it He hated the fact that she could reason hi him into a maturity that he didn't have or even want He didn't want to be the bigger person and he didn't want to do the right thing He didn't want to be able to judge right fro He only wanted to satisfy his own pride; and hisin his way Asanything negative about his father so Just once he would like for her to call his father exactly what he was: "a no-good, deadbeat, no show dad" who had abandoned his son Just once instead of his ood qualities that the man had, he wished just once she would point out some of his flaws