Rob is driving; he doesn't know where he's going. Tears are coursing down his face as he steers through the darkened streets.
He can still hear the voices of the journalists in his head, even though they no longer surround his car. There are other voices too, Rosalind saying happily You're a reject, like me and Cassie's sad We won't see each other again. His mother's voice, Why do you still worship those kids? They were vicious to you and going further back, the kids on the street throwing stones at him, Where's Peter? Where's Jamie? and Peter and Jamie themselves, You're no fun. You're such a waste of skin.
He remembers what he told O'Kelly, about Adam dying in a car crash. To me it reads deliberate.
Abruptly he turns his car around, getting a blast of horn from the car behind him as he swings down a dead end. There's a brick wall straight ahead of him.
He presses the accelerator down as far as it will go and closes his eyes as he takes his hands off the wheel.
He wakes up in hospital, with cuts and bruises and his mother at his side, and all he feels is disappointment.