For a moment, he wants to yell you’re lying and throw his ice cream like a little kid having a tantrum. Except that would be stupid because it’s not like TJ would lie about something like this. He wouldn’t. So if he - if TJ’s mom died, then. He doesn’t. He doesn’t know what that means.

He feels - grief, even though it’s not his mom that died. And. He’s not sure what else. Maybe. Maybe horror, too. If. If his mom was gone, then it was just TJ and his dad. And. And maybe that would have been okay. Maybe it would.

“What happened?”