in the America is finished growing year of 2001, Canfield is riding his bike to the grocery store. His babysitter is not present and has long left him and is no more in the life of him or his son, Jeremy.
His dad works four jobs and four jobs includes his dad being a father. Whereas his mom is a housewife, the reason the mom has to be a stay-at-home mom and housewife is because the parents agreed that Mom being away was a bad idea, especially since with no supervision, kids can sometimes end up doing bad things and his dad just wanted someone around Canfield, Georgia and the baby.
A really big wake-up call was when Canfield ended up with a baby. An Even worse one was when they found out Canfield was sleeping with the babysitter who was in her twenties.
So, in the end, his mom quit her job causing his father to have to take up an extra.
The worst part is that cribs costed so much that when Canfield's parents wanted him to buy a crib for his child, he knew that he didn't have the money at the time so he went to the store that he was told to buy the crib from grabbed a buggy grab some scissors cut out the fabric from a old comforter they don't use anymore, washed it at the nearby washer and dryer, he had to put sterilizer in there that he bought from the store, because babies are vulnerable, and he put it in the buggy and used the buggy as a substitute for a Crib.
Canfield, being a naive 13-year-old, he's searching for a new girlfriend as his son is in a basket cart attached to the bike.
it's attached by a chain, because instead of a regular basket bike, he took a shopping cart that he got from the store, chained it to the pole that holds his seat up and then started riding with his son in the buggy.
He has no idea that he is going to fail and his attempts to find a girlfriend, most more mature 13-year-olds might stay with him while taking care of his baby, while others would believe that they were not mature enough to care for baby.
However, their parents would break them up from Canfield, leaving he's a sex crazed teenager when in reality there's a much darker story behind how he got his son.
Jeremy is smiling, Jeremy is the name of his about to be 1-year-old in 1 month son.
Canfield rides his bike and crashes it into Molly. His wheel literally rides over her then topples over.
Molly has gained a black eye because it rolled right over her eye. Molly's vision in her left eye is currently blurry, she covers it up and notices that it's tearing up. Canfield gets up off the ground because his bike fell over and ran to her, because, apparently, she was hurt.
Canfield hugged her affectionately because he had a thing with an oxytocin dominant brain. Oxytocin is the love hormone which forces him to be more affectionate. He's not in love with Molly, but they are best friends.
Because Molly's eye's in a lot of pain, Molly shouts out a curse word and she's never cursed before.
Molly slaps Canfield because her getting a black eye and ran over by a bike was not the first issue that happened in her day.
Molly hugs him as an apology, she never actually says an apology, she just hugs him as a substitute for an apology or a proxy for an apology.
Molly yells "Why don't you watch where you're going?! I've never heard of anyone getting ran over by a bike!"
Molly felt discouraged and disparaged by today's horrible events, it was as if the day couldn't get any worse and then suddenly a bike ran her over.
Molly yells "Me and Josh were praying for the abducted babies, yep, them, we just thought of them and we wondered what happened to them. They were much older. They came back but when we went upstairs to go check on them, again, we couldn't find them! Then I got hit by mom, then my dad gets stressed out and left and I don't think he's coming back because it's been three days... THREE DAYS. And my mom is not willing to take me in so I'm going to stay in the camp that Josh and our friends built for the kids here."
Molly was completely distraught as she said those words. It was like a giant rant, a total vent. She felt like she got torn apart by three different bears alive and different barracudas and some piranhas. She also felt like she was being torn apart by a lion.
This was not a good day.
The date is Saturday, November, 14th.
Mall vents to Canfield saying "I feel like my parents aren't doing their job correctly and I feel like I'm not doing my job as a child! I feel like I'm the whole reason that they're doing this because I'm just a stressful kid whose life is scrumbling down and is just acting out."
Molly has been acting a lot lately like running around, screaming at people, just shouting and just lashing out at others even though she's usually a stranger to the people she lashes out at.
Often she's greeted by kind bystanders who try to calm her down.
The neighborhood teenagers often feel like she's been abused and are worried that she's probably going to become suicidal.
Molly is definitely close to being suicidal by now.
Canfield hugs her and comforted her, he kissed her on the cheeks and hugged her tightly.
Canfield had a great idea, he was going to throw her a party. THE BIG ONE.
MOLLY WAS RESENTED BY HER PARENTS, her dad's resentment started last week. "My mom always resented me." Molly thinks.
Molly is not agitated nor does she totally upset anymore and she's trying to calm down.
Molly grabs Canfield's hand and pulls him to a place where they can just go and have fun.
Canfield pauses, stops and then GASPS! "Jeremy!" well they were talking he totally forgotten about Jeremy and the fact that he was in a buggy the entire time. Jeremy was crying but the buggy never fell over the bike did, Canfield went and picked Jeremy up out of the buggy.
Canfield feels that "I'm only 13 and this is why I suck as a father!" He shouts.
Canfield has a family to go back to that was willing to help him raise his son, it's When Canfield is alone with his son that he really sees his inadequacies as a dad.
Not only does Canfield not have enough Spirit experience, the brain of a 13-year-old, when it comes to the frontal lobe, isn't fully developed, and for men, his frontal lobe won't fully develop until he's 25. if he were a girl, it would be fully developed by 22 and at 22.
This is the thing that's positively in all men. This is why they say "women develop quicker than men," it's not just that, Canfield also doesn't have enough knowledge.
Canfield's situation, being so young can leave him in a situation where if he hasn't researched enough or hasn't been looking things up, he won't really know what to do, Internet isn't existent, the only time he's ever went to the library was to study, as a child you don't have as much knowledge as you would as an adult, like, an adult knows more.
They've seen old news reports that taught them things, they've seen new news reports, it's talking about life, why you shouldn't commit certain actions, why doing certain things can be dangerous.
His parents didn't teach him a lot of the things that they should have taught him due to his age, like since they don't keep antifreeze, he doesn't know drinking antifreeze is dangerous.
Right now, they're kind of like "in the moment parents," they don't teach him things prior to the situation popping up where they'd have to and now they do and they don't know things like "Well, babies can't drink a full bottle or glass of water because their bodies are already made up of mostly water and if you give them too much, it can hurt them and over hydrate them and kill them."
And "in the moment parent" usually teaches their child when something comes up, like, the child beats somebody up, they never told him not to beat other people up, but, because their child beat someone up, now they decided to teach their child not to beat someone up.
T.V. has also, in a sense, raised Canfield.
Canfield feels highly inadequate as a father.
Canfield doesn't even know that he needs to burp his son because on TV, they never tell you about that, he doesn't know about poop explosions or that just to stop potential pooping through your onesie you just can get a one size up diaper or more.
Canfield is walking to the store, Molly is right behind him holding his son. Molly is really jolly and really loves Jeremy. Canfield walks all the way to a Walmart with her and his son. Canfield tells Molly to "Go sit down on a bench," that is inside the Walmart they're in.
Molly does is told and sits down on a bench and places Jeremy right next to her and wraps her arm around baby Jeremy.
She begins to cuddle Jeremy as baby Jeremy holds on to her.
Canfield strolls through the store to find party favors, chocolate cake with Oreos on it, surprisingly he does find chocolate cake with Oreos on it and buys it with some money he had stored away for his son.
Canfield does all of this to make Molly happy because they're best friends.
Because Molly is aware that you have to burp a baby, Molly notices Jeremy is having some issues so she packs his back. Jeremy lets up five different verb burps that he wasn't able to let out because Canfield didn't know to burp him.
Molly had a big smile and she patted his back not very gently, once he was finished burping she cuddled him again and hugged him and kissed him about four times.
Molly then rested her head on Jeremy's baby head.
Canfield buys gifts for Molly and then some baby toys for Jeremy, he bought three toys for Jeremy and 15 toys for Molly. He was a kid so he wasn't putting budget into much thought.
He bought a lot of wrapping paper, Canfield that first had about $1,000 in his pocket.
The 15 toys he bought for Molly costed each $5, the three toys he bought for Jeremy each costed one dollar.
He spent $78. The party favors costed in total $23, 70 + 10 = 80. 80 + 10 = 90. 90 + 8 = 98. 98 + 3 = 101.
He spent $101.
The cake he bought costed $25, which means that he spent $126. To accommodate the 18 gifts he's bought...
He got 18 packs of wrapping paper, and honestly all he needed was probably one. Each one costed $14. That makes about... $252.
In total, he spent $353... First of all due to him being a kid he saw $1,000 as a lot of money especially since his family didn't really have a lot, that was one of the worst parts about this.
Canfield thought and realized after spending that much money, he was in a lot of trouble...
Can you imagine his mother yelling at him, shouting "Why would you spend that much money?! you know we're already poor!" Canfield was very embarrassed.
Canfield was about to take it all back when he realized that he wanted his son and Molly to have a great day.
He knew Molly's life was hard and he didn't want to ruin today, Canfield wanted to make her happy for once.
Canfield went back to Molly and decided to tell her about his plans to make more money...
Just as he was about to, Molly started complaining "Where were you I'm just in the middle of changing your son's diaper! I had to spend $23 out of my allowance to buy some diapers. I only have, like, $45 or at least I had $45... That's half of what I had in my pocket! You owe me for not bringing a diaper bag! Don't you know to bring a diaper bag?!"
Canfield facepalmed when he realized that the diaper bag was in the buggy he left behind. Canfield had $647 left. Luckily, he was done shopping.
13 hours later...
Canfield Walks to her House, knocks on the door but because her mom lives in a different house and her dad left, no one answers the door.
Canfield's son is with his mother. Canfield knocks on the door again, but, again, no one answers because nobody is home.
Canfield calls Molly on her phone, can feel got this phone as a gift from his aunt named Gretel on his mother's side.
At the camp, there was a Cherokee boy named Ken.
Ken was Cherokee. Ken said "Let's be blood brothers!" Molly didn't know what that was so she asked "Why? What the fluff is that?" Ken says "Well, it's when, like, you kind of cut yourself so that you can, like, I cut myself and then I cut you and then we put both our wounds together so that they touch and then our blood goes into each other's bodies."
Molly yells "What, yo, that's crazy, borderline Satanic! No, that's a no go, go ahead away from me, no."
A six-year-old girl nearby that was named Tana and that heard the conversation said "What the fluff are you doing?!" Tana was really concerned. Tana was a white child.
Molly is telling a boy named Ken at the camp "I know that blood brothers is a blood contract with you, guys... I ain't going to sign it."
Ken yelled "But, you'll make us Brothers!"
Molly: "Oh, yes, first, I would be a sister, second, I will not cut myself just so that, like, we can be 'related' and, probably, share bloodborne pathogens and illnesses."
Ken yelled "Come on!" Molly says "Don't cut me. I'm from the ghetto," In a high-pitched light "If you cut me something bad's going to happen," but as if she was trying to keep it a high-pitched low-court sweetness.🔥
She also actually said the second sentence the exact same way.
Please, note: When Ken grows up, he's going to be into some really shady things... May or may not involve witchcraft.
Another child went to Georgia and the child's name was Sally and she was a little girl who was black and Sally asked "Georgia, do you want to be blood Brothers with me? Let's be blood sisters!" Georgia asked "What's that?"
Sally asked "Well, if I cut your hand, will you be mad at me?"
Molly slowly touched her hand to her chest, leaning her head back and her body slowly, really concerned and confused, and said "Yeeeeeesssssss..."
Celia Church walks over, Celia Church is a Navajo girl who yells "Don't do that, that's bad!"
Though rituals in which men became blood brothers were common in Asia, Europe and Africa, it is said that it is a Native American ritual and that it inspired legions of boys living in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s to perform their own rituals making themselves blood brothers.
A blood ritual is any ritual that involves the intentional release of blood. A common blood ritual is the blood brother ritual, which started in ancient Europe and Asia. Two or more people, typically male, intermingle their blood in some way. ... It's said that The Native American Sun Dance is usually accompanied by blood sacrifice.
Do you want to know why this never went on with most girls? A lot of us don't like... To cut ourselves... When we aren't depressed or mentally ill.
Celia is about 14 years old and says "It's just disturbing to watch children cut themselves..."
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Historical. The chiefs of the seven Hungarian tribes formed an alliance by drinking from each other's blood, while choosing Álmos as their leader in the 9th century AD. The Mongol leaders Yesükhei (the father of Genghis Khan) and Toghrul were blood brothers in the 12th century AD.
Just so no one gets confused, drinking blood is actually unhealthy and it's just not the healthiest thing to do for humans. Humans are not supposed to drink blood due to health issues that do come from drinking blood. Especially, not from other humans. Just cannibalism in itself can cause health issues, like heart problems and even a specific disease. Some people have gained immunity to it, like people from specific cultures where cannibalism was happening but even though a few people of that culture gained it, most of the residents of those cultures still had the disease that came from cannibalism.
Welcome to the day and age where we have to explain to people why drinking blood and cannibalism is unhealthy.
Please, don't kill and eat people. Even if they're already dead and you didn't kill them, please, don't eat them.
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Celia Church says to The Children at the Camp "You don't need to do blood brothers! Remember when Jesus died on the cross?! We don't have to do any sacrifices or anything like that, he died for our sins!! Jesus Christ shed his blood for us so that we wouldn't have to shed our blood and we wouldn't have to die!!"
Molly felt extremely unsafe in her surroundings.
Molly softly complains in this concerned tone of voice "I don't... Feel safe here..."
To Be Continued...