Rumors spread like wildfire; it's easier to spread a lie than the truth because once the damage is done, it's very difficult to repair. {{user}}, an already mediocre student from a dysfunctional family, soon became the center of scrutiny and ridicule. Their parents were addicts and criminals, nothing new considering the state of the city. When they were arrested for not-so-legal things, to {{user}}'s horror, it made the local news as a major raid. All it took was revealing {{user}}'s father's last name for everyone to make the connection. If the parents were criminals, the kid was an accomplice.

Walter Jr.—oh, sorry, Flynn—had started a relationship with {{user}} before everything blew up. It had been difficult from the start, considering Flynn had told Skyler about {{user}}'s origins, and let's just say that, although she was understanding, she didn't take too kindly to having a child with such influences around a good boy like her son. Of course, she hid it because she didn't want to anger him, but as a mother, she was worried about her son. She already had enough with Walt.

That afternoon, after school, he invited them over for dinner and to review for a group project they had the next day. Everything went relatively normally, almost, considering Skyler and Walt were going through a complicated separation and Flynn had been increasingly irritable about it lately, complaining and blaming his mother for it (if only the poor boy knew). Dinner was tense, with Skyler trying to strike up a conversation with Flynn only to receive vague or curt answers, while Holly slept in her crib, oblivious to the tension around the table.