57 pages • 1 hour read
Not Quite Dead Yet
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Parts 7-8Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child death, death by suicide, alcohol use, graphic violence, sexual content, cursing, illness, and death.
Part 7: “Friday November 7” - Part 8: “Saturday November 15: Eight Days Later”
Part 7, Chapter 28 Summary
The next morning, Jet and Billy go over to Billy’s dad Jack’s house. They decide to talk to Jack and look through his mom’s stuff; she left when Billy was 18 years old.
As they walk through the house, Jet asks Billy about the day Emily died. Billy was only 11 years old, and he remembers Luke coming over to play with him, something that rarely happened. They played in the yard with Billy’s dad, and Emily was still at her house. At one point, Billy remembers Luke going into a bush to retrieve a ball and coming out with scratches on his arms. Billy’s dad bandaged them, but Billy thinks he remembers Luke already having the scratches before he went in. He tells Jet he can’t be sure.
Later, when Luke went home, Billy’s parents and Billy went with him. Luke couldn’t find his keys, so they helped him get in through the back door. Billy’s mom found Emily at the bottom of the pool, her hair stuck in the drain.
When they talked to the police, everyone told the same story. Luke insisted that he never went into the pool that day, but Billy thinks he remembers smelling chlorine on him.
