I did not like the sadness I saw in his eyes.
“Whenever there’s something I want, she does her best to make it happen. Most of the time, I think really hard before I ask for anything. I don’t want to make her stressed, you know?”
I did understand.
But he was much too young to be carrying thoughts like that.
At fourteen, he was far more mature than I had ever been. Most kids kept asking for things and hoped the answer would always be yes. The fact that Kael constantly thought about his mother’s stress and happiness before asking for something said a lot about the kind of person he was.
“She hates that weird magazine she works for,” Kael said, “but it pays well and keeps us going. She really wants to write her own stories, but she never seems to have enough time. I think she’d really lo
