I was, actually. I had taken all of his electronics with audio functions and recorded myself screaming in his ear. [A little juvenile, yes, but fuck it, it was funny.] It's been a while since I did that, though, so I thought he was building up to something big to get me back for it.
[Reid hesitates, then shies away from sharing anything about his father. It's even harder to talk about now than it used to be, if that's possible, since he's so conflicted about his father's occasional letters and cards and phone calls. He doesn't want to risk talking about it to anyone else before he knows exactly how he wants to respond to it.] I sort of got into college when I was twelve, so I didn't have to worry about having a guardian when my mom was sick. [Sort of. Kind of. She was sick a long time before he went to college.] I don't have any living uncles or aunts, either, so it's really just me and my mom.
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[Reid hesitates, then shies away from sharing anything about his father. It's even harder to talk about now than it used to be, if that's possible, since he's so conflicted about his father's occasional letters and cards and phone calls. He doesn't want to risk talking about it to anyone else before he knows exactly how he wants to respond to it.] I sort of got into college when I was twelve, so I didn't have to worry about having a guardian when my mom was sick. [Sort of. Kind of. She was sick a long time before he went to college.] I don't have any living uncles or aunts, either, so it's really just me and my mom.