Josie did it!!

At what I believe is the last trial, Peter knows now that he is going to be charged as guilty. He tells Jordan this and asks him if he can just tell his side of the story so they know what happened. Jordan agrees and as Peter speaks, some people realize what he was going through and are shocked to hear some of his answers.

Meanwhile, Patrick decides he must find what happened to that other bullet that was fired in the locker room. As he is driving to the school, he gets eerie memories of what happened the day of the shooting. As he walks around the school, his conscience seems to be telling him to look in the locker room. When Patrick goes in there, he starts positioning himself where he found Peter, Matt, and Josie and where they may have been standing before he came. As Josie "claims", Matt picked up Gun B and tried to shoot Peter but he missed and so Peter shot Matt. To Patrick though, he thinks Josie is lying and I kind of do too. It's not possible for Matt to have shot a gun and then be lying on the other side of the locker room dead. Suddenly, it all clicks when Patrick finds a bullet by the shower stalls, coming from Josie's direction.

Back at the courthouse, Josie is called up as a witness. She decides it's time to tell the truth and so she tell the judge that when her, Peter, and Matt were in the locker room. Josie shot Matt first and then Peter did in the head. I can't believe it!! I never would of thought Josie would of killed Matt. I thought he could of shot himself or Peter did using two guns, but not Josie! All of a sudden, the courtroom is a buzz as the truth comes out.

The end of the book closes with the author writing that Peter committed suicide in the prison cell using a sock. Then, Patrick and Alex are described as walking through Sterling High School five months later and Alex is pregnant.

Wow. This book had a very twisted ending with lots of surprises I never would of guessed.

Who shot Gun B?

As the Sterling High School shooting trial moves along, more students are interviewed. Drew Girard was chosen to be asked questions and Jordan McAfee makes Drew look like a bully. The types of questions he asks like "Did you ever call him names?" "Shove Peter into a locker?" "What about the time you pantsed him?" put Drew on the spot but he answered all of them honestly. From what I've learned and already guessed, Josie's "crowd" (the one that Matt, Courtney, Maddie, Drew, and others hung out in) were very mean to Peter. They bullied him pretty much everyday.

Next, Derek (one of Peter's only friends) came up to the witnesses stand. He was asked the normal questions and everyone heard that along with Peter, he was picked on quite often as well. Jordan started asking him if Peter had ever talked about the shooting and he said no but the two played his game, "Hide-N-Shriek!" Then, Derek said something at the end of his talk. A female lawyer asked, "You never put together a plan...killing people who had hurt you the most, did you, Derek?" And Derek said, "No, but sometimes I wish I had."

Is that saying everyone who was picked on or bullied wishes they would of done what Peter did? Was Peter sticking up for those kids?

At a jury meeting about a week later, the judge asks Patrick about the guns Peter used. He said Peter on used two guns, Gun A and Gun B. Patrick and the crime lab have proof that Peter used Gun A, but he still hasn't discovered who used Gun B. That seems to be the missing piece of this puzzle.

At this same meeting, a physiologist has done some research on what may have gone wrong and if Peter had a brain disorder. He concludes to the judge that Peter was just going through the motions and actions of everything he did that day like shooting people but that he never was capable of thinking about what he was doing.