Chapter 21 Summary

Lude is dead. He took pills and injected dope into his body (way too much), got on his motorcycle and drove it into the side of a building at over 100 miles per hour. Johnny feels numb knowing that his dear friend is now dead. Johnny's journals are being read now. He is staying in a hotel, yet he calls it an asylum. He hears screaming coming from every room around him. He finally leaves the hotel and sleeps under park benches.

Kyrie's boyfriend, Gdansk Man, thought Lude wasn't enough. He comes after Johnny. He finds him, stops the car and beats him in the face. He blackens Johnny's eye and bloodies his nose, then walks away. Johnny feels the anger rise inside of him like an inferno. He reaches for an empty Jack Daniels bottle, smashes it against Gdansk Man's head, and does...