He didn't like the man his mother was living with, and was not willing to leave his old friends, so he ran away from home and stopped going to school. "She doesn't care what I do, anyway," he says.
他不喜歡媽媽的同居男友，更不願意離開原來的朋友，所以蹺家、逃學，「反正她也不關心我！」