“Jace” Lee shouted running over to him “Mate what is going on?”
“I have no idea, Jess is fucked up, Lisa is messed up and Carmen isn’t much better”
“Where you off to?”
“To check on Lisa” Jace said
“Mind if I come?”
“Sure”
Jace and Lee walked up Jess and Lisa’s street, Jace knocked on the door, Lisa answered and walked straight into Jace’s arms.
“Baby it can’t be that bad”
“It’s worse than bad” Lisa said “We need to go speak to Carmen”
“Why?”
“I’ll explain when were all together” Lisa said lifting her house keys
They walked the 10 minutes to Carmens.
“Hey guys, she’s upstairs” Carmen’s mum smiled “Just heading away for the weekend”
“It’s only Monday” Lee said
“Weekend has come early then” Carmen’s mum smiled
Jace shook his head “No-wonder Carmen is messed up!”
Lisa, Jace and Lee walked upstairs to Carmen’s room. Carmen was sitting at her desk drawing.
“Hi”Lisa said softly “I really need to talk to you”
Jace and Lee walked in behind her
“Jess is abusing her pain medication” Lisa said
“Please tell me that’s a joke” Carmen said
“No, we just like totally hide every pain killer in my house, she just blew the top at us all and I really don’t know what to do” Lisa said sitting on Carmen’s bed; She lifted the picture of Jess and Carmen. “I know she hurt you Carmen, trust me she’s paying for it but she needs our help”
“Lisa you saw what she was like with me in the library”
“Maybe if you didn’t treat her like shit when we got home she wouldn’t be like this!” Lee snapped
“LEE!” Lisa snapped
“No he’s right, I was horrible” Carmen admitted “But I was also angry and her and hurt”
“You love her right?”
“More than anything” Carmen told them
“Then help us get her back!” Lisa pleaded “I need my sister, she’s the strong one!”
“She’s not touched her guitar in weeks, she’s not showed up to any band rehearsals, and she walked of the basketball team” Jace said
“What we going to do?” Carmen asked “If we corner her she will flip out and no offence she could floor any one of us!”
“She has a point” Lisa laughed

Tina walked into Jess’s room; Jess was sound asleep on her bed with her laptop still on her knee.
Tina walked over shutting the laptop down. She gently woke Jess.
“Jess lie down properly you’re going to hurt your neck” Tina said
Jess did as she was told, Tina pulled the cover up tucking Jess in, she lent down kissing her on the forehead.
“I love you and I’m here when you’re ready to talk to me” Tina said before leaving the room