Chapter 141

Erik's POV 

He wasn't asking sarcastically; he genuinely seemed to want to hear what I had to say about AA meetings. The truth was, I didn't know all that much about them. What I thought I knew was that everyone stood up and admitted to being alcoholics and then prayed to God to forgive them. I didn't have anything against people who went to AA meetings, they had helped a lot of people, but it wasn't my thing.

Religion had never been my thing. Well, before my mother passed away, we had gone to church, but very infrequently. When Mom was sick, we went almost every Sunday. I prayed for her to get better; my brother and father prayed for her to get better. But God wasn't listening to our prayers because she died.

After my mother's death, religion no longer had a place in my life. I didn't have time to pray to a God who wouldn't listen to me. I didn't have the energy to think that someone was going to make things better for me. Instead, I took on the mentality tha