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"A failure? A loser? A disappoint from his words

"Me" Dad unbuttons the top of his shirt "Every time I look at you, I seeinto"

Jesus Christ I lean forward and scrub my face with my hands For years we’ve torn each other down That’s hoe colares and words of hate How the fk am I supposed to respond to this? My head spins as if I’ve been knocked around

"You reht your grandfather was going to kick h school"

Neither he nor his parents have mentioned this before Dad, in ly perfect "What stopped hirandrin on his face "Just like your mother would have stopped me if she wasn’t involved with Rachel at the tiethe sensation of choking "You e?"

"I ? I glance overhim The door is shut and it’s only the two of us "How bad did you fk up?"

"Worse than you" Dad picks up the report card "I never ht Bs I never voluntarily worked a job or kept one and I never found so to focus on like you haveWhen was the last ti "A while"

"You spend a lot of tiym"

"Yeah"

Dad slides over a brochure for top-of-the-line equipthe front living roo someone to personally oversee her recovery While I was researching, I found this I thought you’d like to pick out a few pieces"

I have the same heroin-induced haze as when I talk to Abby and fall down the rabbit hole "Thanks, but I like the gym"

"Your mother would like to see you hoe in the fall andso would I"

"Did you get hit in the head recently?" I hold outpains down this arm accompanied by chest pain? Numbness on one side of your face? Newin recreational iven this look a hundred times to my brothers, but never to me Fuck me--is that pride?

"I’ve talked to the adton You can return to school, and I’ve talked to the admissions office at the University of Louisville They’re willing to review your application again"