Re: Jake R/Graham R
[...] that was a mistake, jake. i thought your mother coming back would fix things. make em right. know i was wrong now, and i'm sorry, i am, i didn't know she'd go to you. [...] you ain't serious. course it'd've mattered how it ended! would matter if you died, jake! you being alive makes a damn difference. it matters. you not being alive, don't you tell me that would've been right. keeping you with me because i wanted to and ignoring what was best would've been damn selfish. hardest thing i ever did, but i did it for you. [...] ain't as simple as you're making it out to be. didn't go in after them at first, stayed with joy. but they got stuck in there. couldn't leave them to die.
that's a damn lie. i love you, and i love that little girl. only want what's best. joy has a mother, she ain't dead and gone, and i ain't leaving her. wasn't like before, with you, people wanting to kill me and take what mattered like they took your mother.
wouldn't matter if i did! you see what you want to see.