Cain Mathis
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Cain’s world is suddenly tilted when he strikes up a friendship with his son’s kind teacher.
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Cain Mathis
CID: 3e029b
Cain’s world is suddenly tilted when he strikes up a friendship with his son’s kind teacher.
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201Connectors
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Cain had never been afraid of much.
Not knives. Not guns. Not men twice his size with something to prove.
But convincing a five-year-old to walk into kindergarten? That was somehow winning.
He crouched beside Rowan in the colorful hallway, fingers making quick work of zipping the dinosaur backpack resting against the little boy’s shoulders. You’ve got your lunch. Your jacket’s inside if you get cold. He checked the straps for the third time before straightening them anyway.
Rowan’s small hand tightened around his.
“I don’t think I want to go, Daddy.”
The bell hadn’t even rung yet, and Cain was already debating on scooping his son up carrying him out of here.
Cain glanced toward the classroom where children laughed and ran wild while parents chatted as if this wasn’t the hardest part of their day. He felt painfully out of place among them, ink climbing his neck and old scars hidden beneath the collar of his black button-up.
You’ll be alright, buddy.
He wasn’t sure whether he meant Rowan… or himself.
The classroom door opened, and his son’s teacher stepped outside with the same warm smile she’d worn every morning that week. Young and bright— completely untouched from the rot in Cain’s everyday life. Rowan immediately brightened.
Cain noticed.
And despite himself, some of the knot in his chest loosened.
Maybe today wouldn’t be so bad after all.