Beyond Acceptance Page #4

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to send him to his room.

I'm gonna go talk to him.

- Aaron...

- I'm okay.

Rough day?

Come on, Evans. What good is

it to sit and pout like this?

You're only hurting yourself.

Things don't have to be like this.

Can't you see we're

trying to help you?

I can see you're miserable, but you

really only have yourself to blame.

Look I'm sorry about last night.

I don't know what happened!

Aaron, did you move

one of my paring knives?

- No. Why?

- Strange.

Evans. Evans! You're supposed

to be asleep. Stop it.

Look at this mess.

Come here. Cut it out.

Evans, do we have to go

through this every night?

- Evans, this needs to stop.

- Hey, Honey, take a deep breath.

- Evans...

- Hey! Come on.

Honey, let's just think

about this a minute.

I am done thinking about this.

I can't take this anymore, Aaron!

Evans, shut up! Get

off the bed. Shut up!

How can you be so difficult?! All I

ever wanted was to love you! But I tried.

Stop it. Evans! I need this to work.

- I'm sorry. I couldn't finish it last night.

- What?

- We had a bit of trouble.

- That's no excuse. Work goes on.

You had a job to do. I

thought I could trust you!

I do my job and more often than

not, I do a little extra for you,

and if you haven't noticed,

you usually benefit from it.

Come on, don't get

defensive. I'm trying to help.

I don't understand how you can waste your

talents. Where would you be if I hadn't pushed you?

Admit it. Your problem is that you're

always content to stay right where you are.

And you're never content!

All I asked is that you

help me secure a major deal.

- A major deal that's not in our department!

- But it will be!

Soon I'm gonna need

people I can count on.

- What?

- It's just not right.

Right? What does right

have to do with anything?

This isn't about right and wrong, it's about

winning and losing, and I'm here to win!

Well, I have a full plate.

I hope you get the deal.

Don't you walk out on me! I can help your

family and that little "what's-his-name" kid.

I can take care of my family. Thanks. And

his name is Evans. I'm glad you finally asked!

If anything like this happens again,

we'll have to do a full re-evaluation.

Evans can't tell the difference

between punishment and abuse,

and if you lash out in

anger he will lash back.

- It's almost like he's trying to make us mad.

- He might be.

Do you want to keep him?

- Yes.

- Then you're going to have to prove it. To him.

He just needs a little more

time. Can you give him that?

What?

I can't believe this!

- We need to talk.

- We got the deal. Signed on it last night.

And the look on Dave's face when he

learned that I had his job. It was great.

I told you it was gonna be

good. Should of been here.

- You can't just fire me!

- Oh, is that what you're all worked up about?

It's nothing personal. It's just

that I need my team to be the best.

In this economy I can't afford to have

people who only make half an effort.

You had to see this coming. I gave you

that project as a test, and you failed.

Well I think you're

being unreasonable!

This is the real world. If you

want second chances go to church.

I'll do that.

Hey Aaron. See ya around, okay?

So did you make any new friends?

Yeah, all the girls in my lane are really cool.

We have a meet next Friday. Think you can come?

Of course. We wouldn't miss it.

- I suppose he would have to come too.

- Is there a problem with that?

He embarrasses me.

Jen, you can't talk about people that

way, especially members of this family.

- He's not part of this family.

- Jennifer.

Aaron? Is everything okay?

- I... I got fired today.

- What?

Something about the economy

can't support a full staff.

What's that supposed to mean?

I'm going for a walk.

I'm going with you.

- I can still go to the second week of camp, right?

- We'll see.

I bet it's your fault.

How is Dad supposed to focus on work when

he's too worried about what your gonna do next?

And what am I supposed to

tell Rachel and Stephanie?

That I can't go to swim camp next week

because my home was invaded by a little brat!

- Isn't there something you can do?

- I doubt it. He's written me off as a failure.

You did the right thing.

Yeah, but it's more about winners

and losers than right and wrong.

- Aaron, you know that's not true.

- I know, but... It's just so frustrating!

Things haven't been great with my business

either. I lost two clients just this week.

- Why, what happened?

- It's just with Evans in the house, I can't keep up.

I was thinking...

...maybe in your extra time you would be

interested in running a... small marketing firm.

- How small?

- Aaron.

- No, I couldn't. That's your company, Honey.

- Not if I give it to you.

- Things would be a lot tighter.

- I know.

- And we'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.

- I know.

What about Evans?

I think that now, more than ever,

we need to make this work with him.

Why?

If we can provide a home for him,

then we'll be able to show him a glimpse

of the love that Christ has for us.

I just have this funny feeling;

we need to make it work.

We should at least do what Amy

said and give him some more time.

Why is it when you have these funny

feelings, I'm usually in for a rough ride.

Aaron.

Stay away from me!

It's all your fault. We've spent

all this time trying to help you,

and do you show any gratitude. No!

And now you've made Dad lose his job.

You should be ashamed of yourself! And

if you had parents, they'd be ashamed too.

You could have broken the TV.

Let's just clean up the rocks, okay?

Good, you're both still here. I want to sit

down and talk with everyone for a minute.

Alright, here's the deal. We've

decided we're gonna make this work.

Jennie, you may go to camp next week, but after

that, we're gonna have to tighten up our budget.

Evans, we want you to

be a part of our family.

But if you want to stay here,

we're gonna have to work together and

see some change in your behavior, okay?

I don't know what that was about,

but I have one more thing to say.

- I think we should celebrate.

- What?

That's right. I declare it popcorn and movie

night because tomorrow I start a new job!

Aaron, are you serious?!

But after dinner.

Oh, that's right. We have to eat our

macaroni and cheese. Or was it ramen noodles?

You are having way too much fun

for having just lost your job.

I didn't like that job anyways.

What happened to the TV?

What did you do to the TV?

Wait...

It was my fault. I got mad and

I... I was throwing those rocks.

It didn't look broken,

so I didn't say anything.

Jennie, go to your room right now!

And you can forget

about camp next week too.

And now, you've made Dad lose

his job. It's all your fault.

If you break one more thing in this

house, you're out. Do you understand? Out!

He's just not a good

influence on the kids.

You shouldn't take things that

don't belong to you. Give it to me.

He goes and he goes tomorrow!

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