One is that the narrative revolves around a specific and relatively short period of time. The science fiction aspect of this story is the mechanism that drives the tale but it is never explained or explored and receives very little page space. Jack begins to loop back in time, reliving their short relationship, trying to change the outcome and give his love story the happy ending it deserves. And that should be the end of the story but it’s actually only the beginning. He’s the happiest he’s ever been and is convinced his days of ‘almost’ are over – and then she stands him up for prom. Jack introduces Kate to the people in his life and she fits in like she was the piece they never knew they were missing.
Even though he’s a senior in high school and she’s a freshman in college at a school ninety minutes away from his home, he knows this was meant to be.Īnd for a short time, their relationship is ideal. They spend the entire night together, talking, giggling, flirting and everything is perfect. This leads to a laughter-fueled, cliché-filled conversation which has them bonding over their mutual love of fruit loops and classic movies. Instead, he is sitting on the steps feeling sorry for himself, watching Jill just a few feet away being the life of the party, when a girl named Kate tells him to stop blocking the stairs. He’d hoped that this weekend at the school both he and Jill plan to attend in the fall would give them a chance to have alone time together and have her see him as something other than just friend material. Which is making Jack’s tour of Whittier College especially painful. He almost made class valedictorian, he would have been the school mascot if another boy hadn’t executed a far superior somersault, and his best friend Jill (Jillian) would be his girlfriend if his other best friend Franny (Francisco) hadn’t asked her out first. Combining a touch of the movie About Time with a little bit of The Fault in Our Stars and a heaping helping of charm, Opposite of Always is a story about true love that examines all the things we discover on our way to happily ever after.Īt the start of our story, Jack King tells us he is an expert on “just missing out”.
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