In the book ask Alice, she gets in to situations were she wants to be a good family girl and cant stay away from drugs. This alice is faced with a hard disesion for her situation, she had to face her family after she had already ran away or stay at her place alone. The resason she was faced with this dision is because Kris the girl she ran away wants to go home. plus it is around Christmas and the are both feeling lonely. When Alice reaches her disecion that she wants to get clean and go home, her parents are so excited.when she gets home her family is catering to her and she thinks she is Happy for the first time until she goes through withdrawals