Chapter 72 Eleven: Siegfried

• It’s late, and I haven’t heard from Rosie since this morning. I was going to pick her up from school, but she hasn’t answered any of my texts. I waited outside, but she never showed, so I waited for Dalton to come home. After looking in his room and in the pool house, I find him in the game room blasting music while he plays Xbox.
• “Hey,” I say when I walk in, but he doesn’t look up or turn down the music.
• I’ve tried to give him as much freedom as I can, but he always abuses it. On top of that, he’s flat-out disrespectful, no matter how hard I try to have mature conversations with him. I’ve done my best to show him what responsibility looks like and what hard work can truly build, but he’s more interested in the fast track to wealth and doing whatever the fuck he wants.