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"Reood itated It takes days to recover sometimes, and--"

"Do you really think I would purposely hurt my own father?" Is that the way she saw hi, but the truth is, you’ve hurt him before You’ve hurt both of us You’ve hurt yourself"

It always came back to that And how in the hell did his sexuality affect therow even more that his mom would rather he live a lie his whole life than "hurt" the true to himself

"Maybe you don’t see it like that You may think you’re a hoh!" Gavin paced away fro he couldn’t take back "I know you don’t understand, and I know you were raised to believe certain things, but don’t tell me I don’t knoho I a me"

His mom shook her head "Gavin…I…we just worry about you so hed, walked over and kissed her cheek "I know, Moet your hair done and then come back We’ll be here, and Dad will be okay I proo on her way Gavin made his way to the locked here they kept de to hold back that anger surging through hi

"It’s been a pretty good day Nothing out of the ordinary as far as confusion or outbursts I’m sure he’ll be so happy to see you"

Would he? If he was in his right mind and reut tightened It was a unique feeling, going to see his father in a nursing home, and not one he enjoyed Ridiculous as it was, he always saw his dad as this invincible being His parents were old-fashioned His dad was always the one to take care of the faender roles If there was a problem, it was up to his dad to fix it, and now here he asting away in a nursing home, and he couldn’t fix it None of theo in, Mr Davis"

"Thank you," Gavin replied to the woot to his father’s room, the door was closed He knocked softly on it before slipping it partway open "Dad? It’s Gavin"

"Who?"

Gavin’s heart dropped "Gavin" He stepped inside "Do you reer flashed in his dad’s eyes "Of course I knoho you are I’ crazy being locked in this roo rooo for a walk?" His arden out back where he could take his dad out to walk if he wanted

"Could we do that?" Finally there was a faht in his father’s eyes They’d been so close when Gavin was young Then, after they discovered he was gay, the pain in his dad’s eyes always kept Gavin at bay When he decided to pretend he wasn’t who he really was, things were better again That’s the man who looked at him now The one as proud of him, and damned if Gavin didn’t like that look He wanted his parents proud of who he was regardless of who he felt attracted to

"Absolutely Come on" Gavin helped his dad out of the chair He linked his right arh his father’s left one and slowly led hiardens were they could walk

"The air feels good, doesn’t it?" The sun burned bright, but they were lucky to have a slight wind Summer had always been his favorite ti with you"

Gavin’s head whipped his dad’s way at that He would never get used to this--lucid moments followed by confusion It was this constant fear every ti what to expect But this…the ht up before

"We used to have a lot of fun, didn’t we?" Gavin asked

"We did" His father squeezed his arm "Our boy Your mother and I alanted you soin the church band, college, your job I…" he shook his head "We had our hard times orried about you so hts you used to have" Gavin’s eyes fell closed and he let out a deep breath Don’t do this, Dad Don’t go there