I honestly didn't quite get the ending, why did the two guys fight? Who was the stalker? How did the rapist die?
I might be wrong since i don't understand the stalker myself.
But the two guys fought because the bully guy happened to see the ex-bestie go into the house with the girl and later with the events of pregnancy lining up, probably confronted him, to which the ex-bestie probably denied it.
About the stalker idk. Idk why the bully would have the need to stalk the girl so my theory is there was a different stalker, but during the day of the incident, the bully guy happened to be there and see the incident, another reason is bcz the house the girl went to was of her cousin so the stalker probably won't be there.
The r@pist died from the car accident shown in the first chapter. The mc survived with only the leg injury and later started hallucinating about that guy probably a way to cope. The fights between the bully and the ex-bestie was after the girls funeral. The flashback usually have a dark backgrounds.
I come back here every few months to come reread this. just to understand it a lot more and to feel that bittersweet.
I love this story. I think about it many times to time, it mentally affected me.