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.