Never Never

Charlie, Silas, Janette, and Landon all drive back to Charlie’s house. Silas knows Charlie is not looking forward to confronting her mother and offers to drop Landon off and return, and spend the night to go over their materials. Charlie notices that Silas remembers her bedroom is upstairs. He admits some of his memory has remained. Silas and Landon return to Jamais Jamais to retrieve Silas’s Land Rover, which is a bit wrecked from the previous night. Landon returns home, and Silas returns to Charlie’s.

In Charlie’s room, Silas considers a theory: “[W]hat if, when we broke up, we screwed with destiny?” (320). In other words, he believes they are soul mates driven apart by their fathers’ fallout—which went against the universe itself. Charlie decides if this is true, Silas has 36 hours to make her fall in love with him. As they fall asleep, Silas reads an old letter from Charlie in which she recounts them meeting a man in New Orleans, a street performer, painted silver like a robot; at his sidewalk booth, he told fortunes. The pair paid him a quarter and he told them life makes no sense, that all we can do is dance. They then danced on Bourbon Street.