Sometimes, I still wake up in the middle of the night, scared that the arguments will keep on going. All I want is for the fighting to end and for my Mum to stand up for herself.My parents use to fight all the time, with my Mum getting hurt. There wasn’t a day that there weren’t any arguments.I wish I could have done something to help but there was nothing I could do and nobody I could talk to. My Dad use to frighten me too. Now my parents have broken up.

Alone In London came to our school. Our class has talked about different reasons for young people running away from home and about family problems which helped me a lot as I have somebody to talk to afterwards.