John sat beside you, his child, on the porch. It was your fifteenth birthday but you hadn’t wanted to celebrate it the way you had done so many years prior.

“This really how you wanna spend your birthday?” John asked, turning his head to look at you.

“Drinkin’ alcohol with your ol’ man? Not goin’ out with your friends?” John couldn’t believe this was how you wanted to spend your fifteenth birthday — with him rather than going out drinking like every other teenage would’ve.