In Nineteen Minutes this particular scene was frustrating and sad. The court case is almost over and Peter has admitted that he was the murderer who killed the 10 people and injured 19 people at Sterling High School. But Peter’s lawyer, Jordan, sees on the sheet that there is still one more witness JOSIE CROMIER. Jordan feels that she can save Peter’s case. Josie has been telling everyone that she doesn’t remember what happened the day that Peter killed everyone and has been begging her mom, Alex, not to make her go to the witness stand. Josie finally decides that she will testify as a witness in court. Suddenly things make a completely unexpected turn. “As the gun fired, it ripped two stripes of her skin from the base of her thumb… The blood was black on Matt’s gray t-shirt. He stood for a moment shocked, his hand over the wound in his stomach. She saw his mouth close around her name, but she couldn’t hear it, her ears were ringing so loudly. Josie? Then he fell to the floor” (440). We had learned that it wasn’t Peter who killed Matt Royston, it was his girlfriend whom he had loved more than anything, Josie. Peter watched Josie shoot Matt then he promised not to tell anyone, a friendship “oath” then Peter went to killing more people. It made no sense, Josie and Matt had been so in love, they were the picture perfect couple. After she is pleaded guilty for murdering Matt Royston, Josie admits to her mom that she loved Matt so much that she hated him, she hated herself for loving him and if he was gone things would in a way be easier. Popular, perfect, straight-A-student Josie had thrown her life away from that one bullet that killed Matt. She was sentenced to five years in prison.
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