A choice
Jared just couldn’t focus on anything else after he had that heartbreaking phone call with his mother. He knew that she didn’t want him to know for that very reason, but they didn’t have any secrets between them. Lying to her son would just feel wrong on so many levels for her.
Jared was trying to focus on anything else except the news about his mom having cancer. He knew that things were not going well and he needed to do something. But what could he do? He was in university now and just couldn’t drop everything and leave just like that, could he?