OCR Text |
Show Inside Out, 22 church is big on families. If your family is not together in church, it's like it'sasin. I was mad at Oad and Joe for making me sit alone with Mom. In the back. Mom often asked Oad to come with us. Sometimes she begged. She said stuff like, "I know it wilt help you, James. It's what you need." That kind of talk made Oad mad. He started to yell sometimes. "No, it is NOT what I need. I certainly do not need to be there right now. You should know that." "No," she would say, very softly. "It's exactly where you should be." I wished she would stop nagging him. I think it made things worse. I even asked her about it. I said, "Why do you keep bugging him about coming to church with us? Why don't you leave him alone? That's why he doesn't want to be here at home, why he keeps leaving. "And all she said was, "You don't understand the whole situation, Terra." That was it. But you cant say I didn't try. Joe didn't even bother trying. When I talked to him about it, he just said, "What do you expect from the idiot? You can't tell me you still think he's something, Terra." |