My Simple Christmas Wish.

Prologue.

Hi, I'm Zoe and I'm fifteen. Life isn't exactly what you call 'easy' for me at the moment. Well, not since dad died, anyway. It was ten months ago yesterday. 21st January 2013. A great start to the new year, aye? Mum's not been the same since. She just stays in her room now. It's like she's dead inside. If she's not sleeping, she just lays there with a blank expression on her face. Like every emotion has just been drained away from her. If it wasn't for me, we'd all be starving, or dead. My little sister, Jessie helps whenever possible, but she's twelve, there's little she can do.

BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP.

There goes my sister's alarm clock.

I don't set mine. I don't sleep...