Ela Living at home with Grant was great, he was easy going, wasn’t strict, and loved spending time and money on me and my best friend Katie. He and mother had split up, calling it “a break”, while she went to California to stay at an airbnb for a couple months. They’d been struggling for a while, and hadn’t gotten along in a couple of years. I don’t even think anything happened, like an inciting incident, they just plain old didn’t get along anymore. Mom was all about preparing for the future, and making sure everyone was in the perfect place all the time. Grant was more of a free spirit who marched to the beat of his own drum. I think she wanted him to be more practical and spend more time at the house, and he wanted her to be more spontaneous and join him on camping trips and long mou

