Erosion

After a lifetime of deception and duplicity, could you learn to trust again?

This is what Scott has to learn after a particularly painful existence, one that's almost been brought short many times. Being a seventeen year-old foster kid isn't exactly the best thing, especially when you're labeled a "problem child" and have "anger issues". Which is absolute crap, by the way. He knows that the only reason the system exists is money, and it's just a convenient way for assholes to get their daily dosage of child abuse in.

Luckily, he's almost old enough to age out of the system. One more year and he's on his own, right? He'll make it work... somehow. He just has to get through one last foster home, and not get kicked out for about a year. Easy-peasy.

The problem is... everyone is nice. Everyone. It's a little unnerving... there has to be something up.
His new brother, Alex, likes to knit and look at pictures of hot guys. And he's very, very, very nice. Too nice. His father, Evan, mostly stays in his room or is at work, which is suspicious on his own. Scott knows something is up, but what? Everyone seems to want to help him... but no, they'd gain nothing from it.

He'll have to make it on his own, then.

**TRIGGER WARNING: This book has characters with depression and characters with anxiety, with many mentions of suicide or suicidal thoughts. One character self harms and another considers, but does not. A character has panic attacks and flashbacks of prior abuse. One character has schizophrenia and has hallucinations. There is mention of underage drinking as well as mention of drug use. Please do not read if any of these things are triggers to you.**