The Truth 2

As for the boys, Michael barely remembered his father and began to see Leo as his true father while George had small rough patch in adjusting. However George had always sensed odd tensions even as a child and grew to love the new father he had gained even as he became more aware of being different than other boys—some may want to be cops but he preferred fashion design.

The small and new family eventually acquired a new home on Cross St. in the same town, closer to the middle school that George would be attending the next year. While Michael was more than ready to take on the challenge of hockey with his dad coaching him on, George dropped sports and even asked for, and got, his own cabbage patch kid.

Even as his mother grew concerned about George, to the point of wondering if she had made a mistake with her child rearing, the family continued to prosper. Leo and the young mother grew in the company and became so settled that they had a child, a young son named Jason Ryan Lapointe.

Jason seemed to enchant the whole family and became a delight to even the young mother’s harshest critics. It was quite shocking when at 4 months old, a month after the mother returned to work, that Jason Ryan would die in his sleep while with the babysitter. This would become the defining moment in the young family’s life, even as the boys barely remembered little Jason Ryan.

In the aftermath of the death, unexpected divisions occurred—a mother-in-law who believed the death as the punishment for marrying a divorcee, a young father told that it was SID and most likely in his genes and a young mother racked with guilt for not staying home longer. As the young parents took turns blaming their selves, and when that failed, each other.

As this continued, both Michael and George continued through school a grade apart—Michael became known as the good-looking athlete as George’s classmates learned a new word to describe him. Faggot. And George was a smart, if lonely, child and began to realize that the word fit. Of course his parents were blind to this as they fought each other in the little house on Cross St.

As time, and the divide, grew between the parents, each began to find sources to turn to. Leo became more involved with Michael hockey career and grooming him for the sport as the young mother began to search for a sound boarding. She found an unlikely one in a casual co-worker name Jeff. And though it has been hotly debated, the two never had a sexual affair but instead the young mother found herself confiding in the younger man,

Eventually this grew to a breaking point, with each parent openly accusing and fighting one another. Divorce became the answer to their problems even as their children managed to develop their own.