Lost

My name is Madi. I am 14 and I live in Paradise, Illinois. When I was about 7, my older sister, Lexi, which was 16 at the time ran away and wanted to start a new life with her boyfriend. A couple years later, my dad was reported missing. It was like he fell of the end of the Earth. And when I was 10, my little sister, Emily, who was 5 at the time, was diagnosed with cancer. We were told she only had two weeks to live. About 8 days later, she was dead. So it was only my mom and me. Ever since all of that happened, my mother had been slowly drinking her life away. Here is my story.