Heath grumbled, “Mom doesn’t care about me at all.”

“What do you mean? I’m just taking a couple of days off. How is that not caring about you?”

“I want to go on holiday too.”

Heath still sounded a little aggrieved.

“Then ask Lil’ Pie to come back and take your place, then you can have half a month off, even.”

Heath immediately replied, “I don’t have to go on holiday. It’s just that you guys went off without a word, which made me feel like I’d been abandoned.”

He was already in his twenties