Exploitation

There was a time when Alvin minded how people would treat him if they got to know he was an illegitimate son of Casper and living in the same house with his step-mom.

The school where he studied was a place where other schoolmates made fun of people due to any possible reason. He didn't want to be called a bastard even in school.

However, when he joined the college, it didn't matter to him if people got to know about his mother. He got that self-confidence from Ean who wasn't shocked by the news or reacted the way Alvin had expected from others.

'I knew it. I knew she couldn't be your mother,' was what Ean had said. Ean hadn't asked who his mother was or what had happened. As days passed, Ean discerned that Janet was his mother.