Epilogue, Chapter 1 Summary

Mick misfires, and only grazes his head. Drew rushes him to the hospital, and when Mick wakes up, his parents are there. His parents tell them he will get through things. They do not talk about what Mick did, and they do not talk about what will happen. A police officer comes to question Mick, and tells him that Peter Volz has been arrested.

Epilogue, Chapter 1 Analysis

Mick's suicide attempt leads his one true friend Drew to save his life by bringing him to the hospital. Mick's life has completely spiraled out of control, and had it not been for his own stupidity in trying to shoot himself, he would not be alive. Had it not been for Drew, Mick would not be alive either. Mick's parents -his family- and his one true friend, have brought Mick back from the brink...