I had been noticing some changes in his behavior, lately it had become very remarkable. For a while I thought that maybe it was because he was testing us and our strict rules. That he didn’t understand that we did it just for his own good. To protect him from all the bad influences and distractions in this poisoned world. But when he started to be more unruly I knew something more was up. Especially when he suddenly started to go to the library every evening. One night he came home after 9 pm. While the library closes at 7 pm. I did what we should’ve done sooner: give him home arrest for a month and took his phone away. I looked through it and found out what had been the cause of his behavior. There were lots and lots of messages from and to a girl named Susan. She must have been the reason for his behavior. She caused our son to be distracted, to not focus on his homework as much as he used to formerly. And she was the reason why he always left the house. She had a bad influence on him. I and my husband talked to him about her and made clear that he couldn’t be with her, with any girl for that matter. He was way too young to have such things on his mind and we couldn’t allow that. We needed to protect our son. Of course he was mad about this and he still is. But back then he didn’t know what was good for him, we’re hoping that he will learn to become the decent grown man that we have always raised him to be in university.

-Mrs. Edwards-