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❛ break the chain. don't be the one forwarding the pain to justify the pain. ❜
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JOSIE LAWRENCE HAD a deadbeat father, but she would never go so far as to admit that.
He was all she had. Her estranged mother lived in New York, and she didn't have any grandparents. Sometimes she saw her Aunt Stacey and Uncle Greg, but they had five children of their own and would likely explode under the pressure of another. But that didn't matter because Josie was happy in her dad's custody.
Maybe he wasn't the most amazing father in the world ── he had his flaws and his weaknesses and doubts ── but he was good enough for her. He was trying and that was all that mattered. Josie Lawrence had a lot of forgiveness in her heart, sometimes a little too much, and she preserved most of it for her dad. He didn't always completely deserve it.
In the Fall, when he opens up a karate dojo and starts to teach a student by the name of Miguel Diaz, things change. Josie senses a positive shift in him, but a subtle change in their dynamic. It grows frailer. Weaker. Smaller. Ultimately, she decides to take on these karate classes to refocus the attention back on herself, though it proves somewhat futile. She isn't the star student. She isn't the top priority anymore. Like her half-brother Robby, she's been pushed to the bottom.
