"Not real family. Not the family you find. Then you're in with them and ... then you're part of something." He hadn't had that since his parents had died. His aunt and uncle only had him for a year while they got rights to everything and then he was in foster care from then onward. He had no inheritance, no home, no nothing. Family could hurt, sure, but it was different when it was like this. He had more choices.

"I'll think about it, okay? But it's my shit and I'll deal with it how I wanna."