Follow up on Nineteen Minutes

I finished the book Nineteen Minutes last night, and the ending really shocked me. It was a total twist to what i would have expected. In the ending Josie admits to shooting her boyfriend, Matt with Peter (the gunman). This unravels a lot of Josie, about how she had been living a life of lies and hated her friends who were so judgmental and her boyfriend who wasn't the nicest guy to her. She felt so trapped in living like this to be "cool" that she had no other way out than to shoot her own boyfriend to break free. Peter who was Josie's former best friend in the eighth grade also felt the same way about having "no way out" of always being bullied and having no friends to turn to. This is a huge reality check, I feel that kids these days especially in high school aren't socially excepted and get bullied so much they feel the only way out is violence to get back at the bullies. I hope kids at our high school dont feel this way, and definitely is an eye opener that if someone appears to have the best life (for example Josie) inside they could be wanting to just break free.