
If Johnny is messed up, Terry is a train wreck. As much as he enjoys his solitude, Johnny does have one friend whom he can partake with named Terry. Other than that, Johnny does what he can to carve his place in the world, which is somewhere between the wall and the wallpaper to escape his former zombified mother. The fond memories of his time with his "babysitter," Tessa, are what keep his somewhat sane and addicted to music. In order to get away from his awful existence, Johnny drinks and drinks. Now that he is sixteen, Johnny has one thing he never thought he would have: a drinking problem. In order to keep a roof over their heads, and food in their stomachs, Johnny had to become the "man" of the house and take over for his emotionally distraught mother. At thirteen, his father was killed in a car accident and his mother drowned her sorrows in sleeping pills and Gin.
