"It's going," he said. "I mean, it's better now that I know who really killed the teacher, and I'm going to try something to get the police to look in the right direction but...it still sucks having my dad in jail on my birthday."

Not that he'd told anyone it was his birthday until just now. Not that it would have mattered if it wasn't for all of this, because he would have been doing something with his dad.