You don't have to keep apologizing, Ken. It's not... it's not about what you did anymore. It's about what you're going to do now.
[He's not going to say that Ken did nothing wrong. He did. He kept quiet, kept all of this time, and had let it get so bad that he allowed himself to be blinded to how much the people around him truly cared for him. But there's a difference between doing something wrong, and something being your fault.
And it's not Ken's fault, not truly. It's the fault of the people who were supposed to care for him, every counselor and teacher he had met after his mother's death, every family member that had failed to step up, and now... now, he supposes, partly their fault. It's up to them to take what's gone wrong, and fix it the best they can.
He doesn't know how. A part of him is considering it already, formulating lists in his head. (Books, there has to be books on it, his Google history for the next few days -- "how to talk about suicide", "when a child is suicidal", "dealing with grief", "dealing with suicidal thoughts", what else can he search?)]
Have you thought much about that? Because you don't need to apologize, but what we - [we, he thinks to himself, keep on saying we] - do next is gonna be real important.
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[He's not going to say that Ken did nothing wrong. He did. He kept quiet, kept all of this time, and had let it get so bad that he allowed himself to be blinded to how much the people around him truly cared for him. But there's a difference between doing something wrong, and something being your fault.
And it's not Ken's fault, not truly. It's the fault of the people who were supposed to care for him, every counselor and teacher he had met after his mother's death, every family member that had failed to step up, and now... now, he supposes, partly their fault. It's up to them to take what's gone wrong, and fix it the best they can.
He doesn't know how. A part of him is considering it already, formulating lists in his head. (Books, there has to be books on it, his Google history for the next few days -- "how to talk about suicide", "when a child is suicidal", "dealing with grief", "dealing with suicidal thoughts", what else can he search?)]
Have you thought much about that? Because you don't need to apologize, but what we - [we, he thinks to himself, keep on saying we] - do next is gonna be real important.