**Alex**

I dont know why I cried when I got home I just needed to but I must've fallen asleep whilst crying. I woke up needing a drink so I dragged myself out of bed and went downstairs I was in the kitchen when my mum came through the door "Alex, I'm home." She shouted thinking I was upstairs which I normally am "No need to shout mum" I let out little joke often so she thinks I'm happy. She laughed and I went back upstairs and sat on my bed staring at the ceiling think about cutting about the relief and regret, how it makes things better but worse. It went on and on.

**Jack**

After school I spotted Alex but he was walking to fast for me to catch him, so I went to Rian's for a while for band practice. We were part way through American idiot when it felt like it was missing something, without realising I wasn't playing the song right and I'd gone into Alex's song from earlier. I came out of my thoughts because both Zack and Rian were looking at me funny "Dude that's not how the song goes, what's up? You normally have that song nailed." I kinda just shrugged at them.... Since when did I shrug. I quickly replace my shrug by saying "Nothing I'm fine, I just remembered my dad wanted me home to do something, so I have to go." I put my guitar in its case, grabbed my backpack and left before they could say bye.

I wasn't actually going home my dad didn't want nothing from me. So instead I sat on a park swing dreading going home. But I knew I had to, so about an hour and a half later I slowly walked home with music blasting in my ears. When I reached home I was late home and I forgot my key so I went round the back and climbed through my window and led on my bed thinking about why I changed from green day to Alex's song.
**Alex**

I couldn't help but feel sick because I was refraining myself from cutting, I wanted to tell my mum, I wanted a hug from her, I used to tell her everything, but then we had to get away from dad and we moved, she's one of those mums who was perfect at everything, she knew how to make me feel better after we had to leave but then it got too much and now I'm fucked up. But we still have a good relationship, before dad fucked everything up, I used to always eat before she got home so she trusts me that I eat and she doesn't ask questions.

It was about eleven when I went downstairs to find my mum asleep on the couch so I covered her with a blanket and went back upstairs. It's now eleven thirty, I was woke up from my thoughts by a scream. I run downstairs to where my mum was. When she wasn't there I started to panic, I called out her name and she said something I couldn't make out but I knew where she was.

Notes

Kind of a weird way to end the chapter but oh well.

Title Credit- Front Porch Step