Prologue

'How can one person face so many problems in life? I am too young for this!''

Seventeen year old Emily is not a normal teenager by any means. She has to face her mothers death, her father's alcohol addiction and on top of that scrutiny from the entire school population.

How can she come out of the mess she calls her life? How long can she maintain her facade?

It seemed like it was going to get worse before it got better...

but then came Jake...