Riot Nrrd

Wren sits with head hung.
WREN: I was five when my parents split up. I wasn’t really old enough to understand everything that had happened. Dad told me that he was gay and that meant he couldn’t be with mom and we couldn’t go to our church anymore, and I just thought, ok, fine... but I didn’t want to leave Honolulu. I thought, since my dad still liked my mom, he was just gay, that they would still be friends.

Photos of young Wren with parents
WREN: I lived with him in an apartment in Hilo for a while. I thought maybe mom would join us here. When Dad told me it was just temporary, I thought that meant we’d go back there after mom built him a new bedroom. I didn’t know he was getting ready to move to New England. I would have to choose where to live soon.

Eric Watanabe listens to the phone while young Wren watches
WREN: I don’t know, if nothing happened, I might’ve gone back and stayed with her. But I noticed he kept getting these mysterious phone calls. He’d pick up, listen for just a moment, and then hang up without saying anything. One day he was in the shower when the phone rang, and I picked it up.

Young Wren listens to the phone
WREN: It was my mother.
MOM: Eric? Are you there? You sick... you’re a pervert and... you’re dragging our child straight to hell... I hope you get... you sick son of... say something, f...