Prologue
Sixteen-year-old Faith sat in her room feeling utterly alone, which was not a new feeling to her. It was four in the morning and her mother was still not home. Her father and mother had been divorced since she was only ten, and her mother, Joanne had been slowly deteriorating since then. It had been up to Faith to keep the broken family going, and day by day the job got harder and harder. Faith's four-year-old brother Benjamin was her responsibility for the most part, and with her mother either out drinking or in bed with a hangover, Faith had to take him to school and cook him meals. As a six-year-old, Ben didn't truly understand what the problem was with his mother, or why he had never met his dad. As a sixteen-year-old Faith should have been hanging out with friends and doing things sixteen-year-olds generally do, but instead she had to look after her brother, and her own mom.