Growing up, She was living in an alcohol fueled war zone where she was forced to act older and keep her younger sister safe and out of the combat zone between their parents. Both of them drank, her dad is a war vet and has PTSD. When he drinks he is usually calm unless something sets him off, he has a bad temper one that both her sister and herself have inherited. 

By the time she was in high school it came out that something horrible was happening...