In his last letter to Justyce, Quan wrote that he knew Trey was trouble from the beginning. Here, readers see that Trey is, in part, responsible for at least one of Quan’s arrests, since he’d provided Quan with the offending pistol. But since Trey seemed like the only person who cared about Quan, Quan quickly became susceptible to Trey’s influence—even though he knew that Trey would lead him into more trouble.