Released from the hospital

Josie is still recovering in the hospital after the shooting although I didn’t understand exactly why they kept her there if she hadn’t been shot. But as Josie said in the book, they wanted to make sure her head was okay after she’d fainted and hit it, and that she didn’t commit suicide or have any sudden panic attacks. The nurses thought that Josie couldn’t hear what they were saying but she can. Unfortunately, she knows that her boyfriend Matt is dead and her math teacher Ed McCabe, along with eight others. Anytime Josie would think of Matt, she realized she’d never see him again.

The next morning, Josie was released from the hospital. As she was walking out, she saw the name Haley Weaver, a senior she knew at her school. She told Josie that her boyfriend Brady stepped in front of a bullet for her and that Peter killed their friends Courtney Ignatio and Maddie Shaw too.

While this is happening, detective Patrick Ducharme visits the crime scene lab on the shooting and a woman tells him that Peter Houghton had four guns (A, B, C, D). He never used guns C and D, but gun A had his fingerprints (which is the gun that Patrick found Peter holding in the locker room). Gun B had a partial print, but you couldn’t tell whose print it was. I wonder who was using gun B? It couldn’t have been Peter because as Patrick points out, it doesn’t make sense to use one gun the whole time and then suddenly switch. Two bullets were shot at Matt Royston. One was by gun A and they found the bullet in his body, but gun B must of went through clean. Could someone else have been in the locker room? Would Matt shoot himself? Did Peter shoot twice, but with another gun the second time so he could cover it up?