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This book is kinda slow right now.

However, this book seems to be dragging along for the past couple of chapters. So, we learned that Val has been in the hospital because the audience has been in this really long flashback. After she was shot, the ambulance brought her to the hospital where she has been treated for her injuries. Brown goes onto say how Val's mom has been a mess for the past couple of days. Always crying whether it was about Val being shot by that "monster" or about how Val is the monster herself because nobody knows if she is innocent yet. Regardless, the past week or so has been very challenging on Val's entire family. Her parents have even started to question their marriage as well.

But, a new man shows up in the hospital one day to visit Val. A simple man in a plain brown suit, Val thought nothing of it until the mysterious man pulled up a chair and began to drill her with questions. He later introduces himself as Detective Panzella. He has been given this case so the town may draw a conclusion as to whether Val his guilty or innocent. He interrogates Val pretty harshly, too. Being the emotional wreck that she is, she breaks down and sometimes cannot answer all of his questions because they can be too deep and she has to take a moment to collect herself. It kind of bothers me how they put her feelings to the side. I mean for crying out loud, the girl just lost her boyfriend AND she got shot in the leg.

After a couple of weeks in the standard hospital, she is begrudgingly moved to the psych ward just a floor above her comfy room. It's a night mere situation when she walks in and sees several different patients with a large variety of problems. Multiple Personality to Bi polar to Schizophrenic patients. Even through she is very alarmed and maybe even scared, she puts on a fake smile and gives them the answers they want to hear so she can get out of the crazy house.

Shorty after she is realeased for the psych ward and starts to see her trusty psychologist, Dr. Hieler. He is a very pleasent but real individual. Val opens up to him about everything, not just Nick but what happened before and the thoughts that have been running through her brain. When she begins her first day, back at Garvin she phones Dr. Hieler for advice. Not only can he guide her along the best path, but he alwya tells her the truth. Even when Val might not want to hear it. I think that this will help her and maybe help her reach her goal of attending college after this year.