The Crystal Child
“Instead Aaron was as sullen as if Julia’s punishment had been his own. He made no secret of the fact that he saw his home as a prison and his parents as his jailers. For the next several days, he retreated into a sullen silence, rarely leaving his room, eating little, refusing to explain his feelings. “Give him time, he’ll get over it,” Todd Lacey said. But it was a feeble remark; he had no idea what he meant by it. What was he waiting for Aaron to get over? He would have said an emotiona...l trauma inflicted on him by a depraved woman. But Aaron himself showed no sign of being wounded, no hint of regret for anything that had happened between him and Julia. He was, if anything, more assertively petulant than ever.
Still, they could see no alternative to treating their son as the victim of a vicious crime. Did they have to argue with him to prove they had done what good parents are expected to do? When at last, in their exasperation, they did press their point, he responded as if they had betrayed him, as if he understood better than they did what the right and wrong of the matter was. “If you expect me to thank you,”MoreLess
Still, they could see no alternative to treating their son as the victim of a vicious crime. Did they have to argue with him to prove they had done what good parents are expected to do? When at last, in their exasperation, they did press their point, he responded as if they had betrayed him, as if he understood better than they did what the right and wrong of the matter was. “If you expect me to thank you,”MoreLess
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