Chapter 13. Summary

Barry is in the hospital. He realizes that he can't feel his legs, but he also doesn't feel much pain because the doctors have kept him pretty doped up. He remembers telling his father that it was "Helen" on the phone, and looking at the roses she sent him, he wishes Helen could somehow know that he was through with her, that he had turned her picture over even before the shooting. Even after finding out that Helen had come to visit him with, as his mother said, "a boyfriend," Barry has a difficult time accepting the idea that there is not relationship and Helen is free to date anyone she wants.

His anger is mounting as his mind tells him that Helen has been two-timing him and that instead of breaking up with her, he had been too concerned about hurting her...