The whole book is written from Billy's point of view.Billy has a friend called LJ who appears later. Billy is 16years old has a driving licence and a 12year old sister. In the beginning of the story the phone rang and a woman told them that their mother was dead they didn't want to belive it, but then they saw it in the news and had to. Then as it is obvious the relatives saw it, too and came to their house. (relatives=Aunt Joan, Uncle Paul and their Grandma).But they were lucky they had also a big brother who was in college. He came, too. The relatives wanted to seperate the family,but Billy and Lori didn't want to. So they had to do something and what they did is easy they told Kevin(=big brother)to stay and go to college there. The only problem was money but they solved it,too by finding Kevin a job. So Kevin had to go to college and to work.......(to be continiued)