Pleasure reading. "The casual vacancy" Part 6

Sukhvinder is taken to the hospital. The police go to Terri Weedon's house to tell her that Robbie has drowned, Krystal is with them. When Terri finally comes out, Krystal runs in the house, grabs her mother's tin of drugs and locks herself in the upstairs bathroom. Though she has never shot up before she has seen her mother  and others do it many times before. She shoots up enough, she knows, to kill herself. The police find her dead on the bathroom floor.

Howard is still in the hospital recovering from another surgery.

 Initially a funeral was not going to be held for Robbie or Krystal because Terri Weedon could not afford it. Sukhvinder Jawanda organizes donations so that the funeral can be held at St. Michael's. She picks out their caskets and the closing song. During the funeral she recalls that Krystal was misunderstood and that she had always admired her brazenness, that Krystal wasn't afraid of others judgement.

Many of the characters go to the funeral, except Colin and Fats Wall, and the Mollisons. Shirley still believes that Howard would not still be in the hospital if the ambulance hadn't been diverted because of the drowning.