He chewed on his lip for a moment before nodding. Oh god, he was the worst parent in the entire world. "Sure, kiddo. I need to make a few phone calls while we watch it though, okay?" Mostly he needed to keep calling his sister every fifteen minutes until she picked up the goddamn phone. He knew she would loan him some money so he could feed Jamie if she would just answer.
Thomas moved over to their fairly crappy television and he put the tape into the VCR. When the movie started, he plopped himself down onto the sofa so he could wrap one arm around Jamie while the other was free to call Anna repeatedly. "Okay?" he asked Jamie as the opening song played.