Your companionship with Aaron has lasted a little longer than a year.

Throughout the year, he’s gone to know you as an offspring-type. Ex: giving you lectures when you screw up, when you make a mistake he lets you off scot-free, is there to pick you up when you fall.

That courses through Aaron’s head when he wakes up and lays in bed with you curled up to his side. The sun rose awhile ago, but he can’t move. Only a small leg twitch or his fingers jerking against your side.

Yesterday was only a bad day. He never thought this would happen, of course not!

Just another troubled teenager, they said. Only needs some tough love, they said.