Bad news
Jared got a phone call from his mom who wanted to have a serious conversation with him. He wasn’t sure what it was all about, but he loved talking to his mom and asking her what was wrong. She told him that she felt like she needed to share this bad news with him.
She wanted to hide the news in fact, because she didn’t want to make Jared feel bad about being so far away from her. But finally in the end she came clean about what was going on. She had been to the hospital a few weeks ago and got some bad news.