Entry Four: Outside Reading

The story of Nineteen Minutes starts out with everything you can do in nineteen minutes. It leaves you intrigued by literally everything you could do, but also why it pertains to the book. Alex Cormier is rushed to get to work, a court judge. Her daughter is Josie, a teenage stupid. The judge is nervy. Distracted. Then it flips to Peter Houghton, a boy that is one of Josie’s schoolmates. How they are connected? We have yet to find out. At school, the bells rings, like a typical day, and we all know what that’s like. The late night, roll out of bed, mosey to school with nothing to look forward to usually? Yea, like that. Except on this particular day, something drastic was going to fulfill the lives of every student on campus. A random girl had to leave school early to go the orthodontist. Now you may be asking yourself, who cares? But then, she heard a huge bang, a bomb exploding from someone’s car. Then bang, bang, bang. A detective, Patrick Ducharme, is radioed what he never thought he’d hear in his life. He books it to the school to be greeted with crying, screaming, a worst nightmare. It’s unnerving and freakish to think if this was you, the kid who was shot, the mother of a child in that school, or even a dog-walker across the street. Patrick bolted into the school, like the “Braveheart,” that he is and is looking anxiously for a sign, a piece of hope to get the bottom of this disaster. Finally he gets closer…

And closer.

The shooter was in the locker room next the gym. A boy sitting on the ground in the fetal position, but where is the shooter? Two people lay on the ground appearing to be unconscious. Dundundun, then we find that the harmless looking boy, is the shooter. Patrick gets a fellow companion to take him in to custody, we he sees one of the students on the ground moving. Just slightly, but she is moving. He picks her up, soaking in blood. Turns out, she wasn’t shot, but instead fell unconscious into the guy’s blood next to her. Who was she? What was her name? How could any of this have happened?