Pages 226-247

If i could rewrite a part of Nineteen Minutes, it would be the part when Josie is in the hospital and finds out what really happened that day. When she wakes up in the hospital she is thinking that she has gotten into a car accident on the way to school with Matt, but thinks everyone is alright. When the police officer is there to question her, he has to tell her what really happened. Then Josie goes into a panic attack, because the officer has to tell her that Matt has died in the school shooting. It is a very sad and emotional part in the book. Josie does not know how to react when she is really told the news. I really wished that her mother would have told her and not the officer. I think Josie would have expected Alex, her mother, to tell her what had really happened.

After everything has happened with the school shooting, they have a suspect. Peter Houghton. One of Josie's old friends. Well use to be friends, now after all that has happened. Peter is in jail and waiting to stand trial. That is all we really find out about Peter, besides that he has planned this out for a very long time. He says to his lawyer, in jail, that they had done it to him and he was just getting back at them. Them being everyone in school, he says. They always made fun of him, and never really understood him. The only person who did was his older brother, Joey. Who died a year before the school shooting happened by a drunk driver.

Now it has been awhile after the school shooting has happened. The school is relocating for the rest of the year. Josie is ready to go back, but is sad, and also scared just to be back in school. Josie's friend Drew came to pick her up on the first day of school. They both lost the ones that they loved, and now just really have each other. Drew has given Josie one of Matt's baseball caps, that Matt had left in Drew's car the other day before the shooting. They both start to cry, just because they both lost a very close friend. Drew says something to Josie about how are they the lucky ones. Why are they the only ones left to live their lives. Josie does not have any answers to that. She is just wondering the same thing herself. This is really all I have read in the book from the other summary.