Seriously, every single one of those dark events was so poorly handled, the characters so flat and meaningless... Not a shred of the clever writing and pacing the author has for conversations with Liam. None of the clever borrowing from movies to set up scenes like the transition where Liam is saying he's a responsible driver, and the very next second we see him speeding like a lunatic, huge grin on his face, and the wonderful varied reactions of all the others in the car.
Now compare that to any of the violent stuff. There he has no pacing at all, no build-up, and so ultimately, the events have no weight.
Going to disagree here... after several replays with knowing what chapter 7 reveals, DrPinkCake absolutely built up all the events leading to the fire. All interactions with
. Scenes that you think are in the 3rd person view and are of no consequence, really are not. Scenes that you think are dreams because the MC thinks that they are dreams are not. It really is all there.
The thing to remember is this tale is being told in the first and third person perspectives, if you are missing any build up is because you are missing the identity of the first person who's eyes we are looking through in certain scenes.
Interactions with the various douchebags in the story (Peter and Dick... waiting for the introduction of a new d-bag named Willy or Johnathan Thomas) seem to be there for the purposes of adding depth to Melissa and Rena and to mislead you from the rabbit hole that you are going to be sent down.
At this point, Peter never was a major player and is never going to be one. He's done. He was just a tool in every sense of the word.
As for Dick, while I don't know what the future holds for Dick, at this point, he appears to be pretty much the same as Peter.