COMEBACK pages 56-82

Mia has been released from the psych ward and is now going home. She doesn’t want to be near her parents and her mother’s sister offers to let Mia stay with her in Indiana. Mia jumps to the offer and packs her bags. Mia’s mother is upset about this and doesn’t know what to do. Immediately when she gets there she begins to drink and smoke joints with her new friend Meliane. She tries uncut cocaine with her for the first time and a hour later she is throwing it up with blood. The next day she is out trying heroin and speedballs and is up for any drug she can get her hands on. She begins to make this a daily process every day meeting at her friend Trevor’s house and shooting up. Meanwhile her mother is planing to lock her up in a rehab.

COMEBACK pages 20 - 56

In these chapters Mia’s mother and stepfather take her to a psych ward for teenagers with problems, because Mia is threatening to run away the day after they find her. When they get their she is stoned and her parents make them test her for every drug and do a STD testing. Mia is extremely upset about this and becomes very upset with her parents. Her parents believe she will be safe their and cannot escape. Then her mother begins to talk about the secrets of Mia’s childhood. When Mia was four her dad sexually abused her and her mother reminisces on when Mia was younger and the incidents that happened, and how she found out what was happening. Her father was also a big marijuana smoker and smoked in fount of her all the time. Mia as a younger child also constantly herd her parents fighting and verbal abuse. Her mother also said that when Mia was 11 she started cutting herself.

COMEBACK pages 1-20

The book starts of with Mia, "a perfect child" what her parents called her, trying to escape her current life. In the first chapter Mia runs away from home beacuse she wants to expirence the real world. Her parents (mom and her step dad) are outraged and cannot belive she whould do something like that. Her parents search all over town for her and find her and make her come home. When she gets home they discover a jornal mia had been keeping of her "secret life" and find out she has been planing to run away for over a year. Mia is extremely upset by this and tells her parents they cannot stop her from ruunning away.