“Are you all right?” Brad asked with concern as they sat in his apartment later that evening.
Knowing what Brad meant, Derek nodded and smiled a bit. “I don’t know all that much more than I did at the beginning, but it’s enough to make me believe my father had some good in him. I think Mom must have thought so too because she stayed with him, and they were going to have another kid.”
“You know, that might have been what made him change his mind about things. When you were young, and this is just a guess, he was wrapped up in what he was doing. You grew up and he didn’t have to be as responsible for you, if you get what I mean. Then your mom gets pregnant and he suddenly realizes he’d going to be a father again and maybe figures he wants things to be better for all of you. Make sense?”
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