E.J.’s best friend. He was murdered in a shootout sometime before the novel begins. The event was traumatizing for E.J.—Jade suggests that E.J.’s trauma and grief is what caused him to drop out of school and fall in with the crowd of guys he hangs out with in the present.
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Alan Character Timeline in Piecing Me Together
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Chapter 9
...to read minds and have premonitions, like she did on the night E.J.’s best friend, Alan, was killed. Nothing has been the same since then. E.J. isn’t fine, but Mom seems...
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