Book Excerpt from "Inspiring Influence Continues" (paperback version - ISBN: 978-1-304-54446-9)
INT. – MICHAEL’S HOUSE – TWO HOURS LATER
Jase is standing facing John James, Gabriel, and Ty.
JASE
Thank you for watching Nick.
GABRIEL
We are happy to help.
Nick walks over carrying a bag.
JASE
You are sweet kids.
NICK
They are like my brothers.
JASE
They are your cousins.
NICK
I think of them as my brothers.
JASE
Thanks again for watching him.
JOHN JAMES
You are welcome.
Jase and Nick walk off.
JOHN JAMES
Ty, do you want to continue that conversation now?
Ty turns to face John James.
TY
What conversation?
Gabriel turns to face them.
JOHN JAMES
You wanted to know about our lives before here.
TY
I didn’t want to know anything really. I was just thinking you never talked much about it.
JOHN JAMES
Most of my life before here was in the Monastery.
TY
Did your parents really die in an accident?
JOHN JAMES
Yes. No one tried to hurt them. They were driving home in a bad storm. They never made it home.
TY
Where were you?
JOHN JAMES
I was with a babysitter.
TY
You never blamed yourself did you?
JOHN JAMES
No.
TY
I wasn’t saying you should. I just.
JOHN JAMES
I know.
GABRIEL
Your birth father made you feel your mother’s death was your fault so you always jump to the conclusion that things are your fault.
Chris walks over.
CHRIS
Do not refer to that man as his father.
JOHN JAMES
He said birth father.
CHRIS
Any man can father a child. It takes more to actually be a father. That man is nothing.
Jye walks over.
JYE
All he ever did was hurt you. That’s not a real father.
CHRIS
He is not even a real man.
TY
I don’t understand that. If he isn’t a man, what is he?
JYE
My dad didn’t mean it literally.
Michael walks over.
MICHAEL
Chris, are you always going to live here?
CHRIS
As long as these children live here, I will live here.
JYE
We will live here.
CHRIS
You are one of the children I referred to.
TY
We’re 18.
JYE
He will always see us as kids.
CHRIS
Yes.
MICHAEL
At 18 you are legal but you are still teenagers.
CHRIS
You are children.
(Inspiring Influence & Inspiring Influence Continues - ISBN: 978-1-7947-9881-6)
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