Elijah Didn’t Understand

None of this was lost on Elijah, despite him being very young. Sara repeated what Elijah had told her, minus the rhyming jokes about his dad, his cooking ability, and his fashion sense, and the two of them began to see what had been happening. The kid knew that his father didn’t like him—even resented him—but he couldn’t understand what he had done. He had always been a good boy and tried to stop being funny around his father. He worried he had said something wrong.