Chapter 12 Summary

Chapter 12 takes place on the next day in the novel's timeline, Sunday. Early Sunday morning, Marsha wakes Philip and interrogates him. He tells her that VJ and Gephardt had an argument, and then VJ talked to someone named Orlando Martinez. VJ then awakens and stops the questioning.

Later that day, Marsha travels to VJ's school. David also attended the school before he died. Marsha talks with several instructors and counselors about David and VJ. She learns that David was afraid of VJ. She learns that David had apparently discovered some secrets about VJ, and then VJ had threatened to kill David. Marsha then goes to the hospital and convinces a staff member to look up some medical record details. Marsha learns that the instructor who tried to engage VJ died of the same rare form of liver cancer that killed David and Janice...