A 14 year old teenager doesn't have it the greatest. Everything around him just seems to crumble away. He rarely sees his father, because he has to work on the road. His brother wounded up in prison and his mom and her boyfriend have to work consistently to keep the apartment in a neighborhood they all hate, so he could get an education and not end up like them. He wasn't the most emotionally stable.
Then the day came and he lost his closest friend.