This is going to be a story about Alex a year after the accident in the episode "Let it Snow". Most of this story will be told from Alex's point of view with flashbacks to the accident and some other things that happened during the last year.
Hey I'm Alex Taggert and I'm 17 years old, but I almost didn't make it there, you see I was in a fairly serious accident about a year ago. I ended up going to a party with some my friends, my Mom, Sam Taggert, had originally said I couldn't go but her boyfriend, Tony Gates, who we were living with said it was ok for me and his adopted daughter Sarah to go as we had both finished our homework. I had a fairly good time at the party even though I was one of the few people not drinking alcohol, you see I'm a diabetic and drinking alcohol isn't really good for me, also my Dad was an alcoholic and I don't really want to end up like him.
Oh yeah I guess I should give you a little more back story on me. First off my Mom was 15 when she had me, yup you read that right, and I was no accident either with some high school boyfriend, nope my Mom was raped by my Dad. For some reason she decided to keep me and go off with Steve, her parents completely disowned her and so I have never met my Grandparents. My mom dropped out of school and collected welfare. When I was about 6 years old my Mom started going to nursing school well I was in school. When I was 8 years old I was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes. For the next few years we moved from city to city to avoid my Dad as he would get drunk and abuse my Mom. When I was 12 we ended up in Chicago and so far this is the city that we have spent the most time in. A lot has happened well we have been here my Mom started dating this guy Kovach from Croatia, but my Dad should up again and tried to take me away from Mom.
A couple of years later when I was 14 I did something really stupid I ran away from home to find my Dad as he had told me he was working in Colorado. Mom and Kovach ended up finding me at a hospital there. I found out he had lied to me and was in prison there. About a year later Steve got transferred to the Illinois sate Penitentiary he ended up coming up with this elaborate scheme for us to be a family again. He kidnapped me and my Mom and planed to drive to Canada. Well we were stopped for the night my Dad shot his accomplices and tried to rape my Mom again. My Mom ended up shooting him and killing him. This really shook me up because I couldn't believe my Mom could do something like that and my Dad was gone, for some strange reason I didn't really miss him much maybe I realized when he kidnapped me how much of a jerk he was. He knew nothing about me; my Mom had to make him stop at a pharmacy to pick up diabetic supplies. Somehow I just ended up getting really depressed over this and did some stupid things like stealing my Mom and someone she worked with' s credit cards, setting fire to an apartment. After all that my Mom put me in to an instantiation to get help.
After I got out of it life returned to some what normal. I ended up not going back to the private school I was going to before and just went to a regular public High School; it was also the same school that Sarah went to. Around this time my Mom started dating Tony and we ended up moving in with them. So now you have my entire back story I gong to tell you a little more about the night I almost died.