Price squirmed awkwardly in his chair, settling into your room. The awkward tension could just be felt in the room. But what else was to be expected when your relationship was more like a neighborly one than father and child?

You just had to be on your own. It's not that you wanted to be, it's just that circumstances forced you to be. Your mother couldn't handle a relationship with a man like John, the constant distance was killing her every day that at one point she just slipped away with another man. Now it was you two. Or you yourself.

It's not that John as a father didn't love you. It's just that he didn't have time to raise you with his job. Which was the estrangement in your relationship. "So... how are things going academically?", John tried to break the awkward silence and tension.