The problem mainly was that he had not been informed until two weeks after his father had lost his job and that the income of his father had already halted.
It was unknown what his father was doing during those two weeks as he was hiding away so the situation could have been even worse than he thought.
As the days and weeks piled on, so did the financial troubles that would accumulate.
The longer that it was left and everyone was unaware of it all, the more difficult it would be to climb their way back out from the debt again.
The silence and body language of his father only seemed to confirm his previous question so Max was feeling quite angered.
He tried to stop himself from shouting and blaming his father then he asked. "So what are you going to do about this?"