( he may be small but jon--understands this pain better than he really ever wanted to. it sucks, a lot, not being able to protect someone, especially-- )

My mom's here. Sometimes it--really hurts when something happens and I can't do anything to protect her, but I know that it goes both ways. Um. . I don't really know how anyone's supposed to deal with that, I guess? I just try to be as strong as I can.