Chapter Five and Six

In chapter five, it talks about how Josh's struggles started to become a nightmare. One of his problems was that his back was not getting better at all. He continued to be in pain almost all the time. As bad as this was though, it still was not his biggest problem.

One day he stayed in the tattoo parlor until closing, and two of the artists named Kevin and Bill asked if Josh wanted to go out somewhere with them. Josh agreed to go with them, but did not bother to ask where they were going and what they planned on doing. Their first stop was a strip club and this was Josh's first time ever being to one. Josh tried to be as cool and calm as he possibly could trying to make Kevin and and Bill like him more. While he was their, he tried his first alcoholic drink. Soon after that, he drank several more and became extremely drunk.

After leaving the strip club, they all went to Kevin's house and they were all having a great time. They were drinking more alcohol when someone pulled out a mirror and started cutting up cocaine. This is when Josh made the mistake of trying cocaine. He then started to use cocaine about every other day with Kevin and Bill. This is something to this day Josh says is the biggest mistake he ever made.

Chapter six talks about some of the last tattoos Josh ever got. He would go into the tattoo parlor, and many times was not even aware of the kind of tattoo that they would put on him. Two of the last tattoos he got was Jesus's face over a cross. He also got one with a demon with no eyes which meant someone with no soul. Josh then realized that this was a spiritual battle going on within him.