Jake

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I didn't want to be here. The band was meant to be an escape from my home life but it clearly wasn't. My parents had been arguing constantly for weeks. My little sister crawled into my bed at midnight when it got really loud and just cried against me. They usually ended with my dad slamming out the house in the earlier hours of the morning and not returning for days. My mum was a mess and just stayed in bed all day crying. This meant I had to feed, dress and take my little sister to school every day. Yesterday she clung to me in tears as the teachers peeled her away kicking and screaming. It broke my heart but I was a mess as well. I couldn't tell them what was going on.

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