Never Never

Content Warning: Never Never includes a predatory relationship between a high school student and a guidance counselor, as well as a kidnapping and an animal death in the Part 2, Chapter 31 Summary.

Charlize “Charlie” Wynwood, a junior in a high school just outside New Orleans, realizes she has no idea where she is. She is apparently in a fourth-period history class, and it is 11:00 am. When class is over, she follows the other students out to the corridor. It is time for lunch. In the cafeteria, Charlie is aware of a boy with dark hair staring at her. She gathers from lunch table chatter that the boy’s name is Silas Nash, that he plays football, and apparently is her ex-boyfriend.

In an afternoon class, Silas thinks through what he knows for certain: He has no idea who he is, where he is, where he lives, or what he looks like. He goes to the bathroom to look at a mirror: “I’m staring, emotionless, into a pair of unfamiliar, dark eyes” (22). Suddenly, the girl from lunch (Charlie) steps into the restroom. Silas calls her by name, Charlie, which he overheard in the cafeteria.