my own play- possible idea

A father wants to reconnect with his teenage son whom he has never talked to.
The father left his son's mother when the boy was a toddler. He is a distant father who sends a check every month and sometimes remembers to send cards. If he sends presents- they're never wrapped. The father doesn't have any close friends but spends a lot his time drinking coffee at the local cafe and talking with the other people who can sit in a cafe all day. He knows the cafe crowd well, but is critical of their lifestyles, failed relationships, and catty behavior. (He of course, doesn't realize that he himself exhibits the exact behavior he abhors)
The event that piques the father's interest in seeing his son is a newspaper article about his son winning an award. The aricle talks about which college the son has gotten into and how he is sure to succeed at any of them.

Father is much richer than his son though the checks he sends each month don't reflect that. He doesn't have to pay child support because he never married the mother.

The son thinks he can afford to go to any college that he got in to and is self-absorbed with the end of high school and trying to pick a college.

The father contacts the son and they meet. The son doesn't particular love the father and the father doesn't know how to build a new relationship with his son, so their conversation is awkward and strained at times. The father keeps trying because he has been thinking over his life and wishes he could have stayed in contact with his son. He wants to find out more about his son and be a part of his life.

The son doesn't understand or particularly invite his father's new interest in him. The son holds it against the father that he has money and he and his mom don't.

The son then finds out from his mother that he can't afford any of his top schools and will have to settle for more affordable choices.

the son does not want to ask his father for help (his father could fund his entire college education to his top school) because he doesn't want to be indebted, but he really wants to go to his top choice college.

The son asks his father for the money the next time they meet and the father is taken aback. The father doesn't feel that his son going to a top choice college should be how his money is spent. The father sees nothing wrong with the more affordable colleges and refuses to give the money.

The deadline to pay a deposit at a college is approaching, so the son isssues an ulimatum to his father: either the father pays for his college or the father should remove himself from the son's life and stop trying to get to know his son while not providing the son with the benefits of having a wealthy father.