Apple and Rain N/E

When Apples mother returns after eleven years of absence Apple feels whole again. She will have an answer to her burning question - why did you go? And she will have someone who understands what it means to be a teenager - unlike Nana. But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left her mothers homecoming is bitter sweet and Apple wonders who is really looking after whom. Its only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are.