A couple of months had passed. Things had been quiet for awhile.

I had slowly been saving to get a place of my own. Liz says I can stay even after I'm legal but she shouldn't have to mind an eighteen and a sixteen year old. Avery has been doing better. He started going to school again for the first time in awhile. He's made some new friends and even has a crush on a girl. All he's told me is her name is Julie.

"Alex, I'm going out" Avery uttered, waking me from my nap.

"Why did you need to wake me?" I grumbled, pulling the blankets over my...