"We can't afford the university prices, darling! We're stage actors, not princes! We always dreamed you'd be a scholar, but you'll have to pay your own way. You need employment."

Montparnasse had heard his mother say this too many times in the past several months. He struggled in school, but did not consider himself dumb. He only wanted things to be easy, as he had always assumed they would be.

And the easiest way to make his mother stop yelling at him was to silence her.

Her own nagging was what turned her precious boy into the Devil's Playmate.