Found with a gun!?

I’m in the “12 Years before” chapter of Nineteen Minutes and this chapter talks about the friendships Josie and Peter and then Alex and Lacy have made, but the feud the mothers get into.

In this chapter, I learned that Peter and Josie are in kindergarten and that Peter has been getting picked on lately. He got new glasses and was given the name “Four Eyes”. His parents also bought him a new lunchbox, but boys on his and Josie’s bus stole the lunchbox and threw it out the window. Peter had to get a new one, but then that lunchbox was thrown out the window too. His parents said if it happened again he’d be punished. It happened for the third time, so he was grounded which in a way isn’t fair because Peter couldn’t do much about the bullying.

Earlier on though, Lacy and Alex were chatting at Lacy’s house because Alex was coming to pick up Josie. They couldn’t find the kids but then heard them in the basement playing. But they weren’t playing. Josie had Peter’s fathers rifle in her hands and Peter was showing her what to do. Alex was appalled to see this and immediately said goodbye to Peter and Lacy. I don’t know if this incident is still the reason for Lacy and Alex’s lack of communication, but I will find out soon.

I do think that the two mothers finding Peter and Josie with a gun could be foreshadowing because Peter was the shooter at the high school. This makes me wonder though, where does this leave Josie? Could she in fact, be a shooter too?


*In response to the end of my last blog, I think Peter and Josie’s mom are still in a bit of a fight because of the gun incident back when Josie and Peter were in kindergarten.