Peter had always known that life had a way of testing one’s character,
but he never expected it to happen in an airport on a routine Friday morning.
Sitting beside his son Arnold,
Peter could feel the distance between them — a silence that no trip could easily fix.
Arnold, absorbed in his phone and his teenage world, barely spoke as they waited to board.
When Arnold left for the restroom, Peter leaned back,
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