Jasper didn't have the same high hopes that his brother did when it came to their mother. She was blood, yes, that Jasper couldn't really deny. But she was just...some woman to him. Maybe that was cruel to speak but for Jasper it was the truth. He didn't look at her and have some fond memory or even feel some sort of connection. He grew up never even knowing what parental bonds were. Maybe she could have meant something or been more but the fact that she was gone was proof to Jasper that it likely wouldn’t ever be the case.
That was how life went sometimes...he knew that.
And sometimes...there just wasn't a way to make everyone happy. That’s what Jasper felt like now. He wouldn't be happy in taking Micah away from here. He knew that no matter what Micah said, he liked it here. He had friends here. He had things still to learn from here. Likely in a way Jasper did too when it came to his abilities but in his life that wasn't really his focus yet. He had so much else to try to deal with when it came to his own self that abilities weren't high on the list.
But Micah...Jasper thought he could still benefit from the school. He just...didn't know how to make this right for everyone. No matter what something was going to be how they didn't want it, wasn't it?
Jasper sighed heavily, shaking his head again. "You like it here." was all Jasper spoke to that. There was no other way to put it. Yes Micah could do as he did now elsewhere but elsewhere he'd be on the streets again, stealing and trying to get by so that they had food to eat and clothes to wear. Here he didn't have that responsibility and he knew that Micah enjoyed that. Jasper felt he'd earned that.
"I don't know."
It wasn’t an I don’t know to if he should be happy, or at least he didn’t make it sound as such though maybe it really was. But more it was an all around he didn’t know to any of it right now.
To stay. To go. What was best.
He didn’t speak anymore after that though. He just….stared back at the horizon again.