When he turns back to me he looks sad, even though he’s smiling the tiniest bit.
He moves around me to the head of the stairs, pausing just at the top.
That’s all I was going to say.” Kent’s voice is steady and low. “I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. Then Kent rests his hand on my elbow just for a second, just that one little touch gives me the chills. There’s a moment of silence that seems to last forever. I don’t think I can be fixed.” I meant to say, I don’t think “it” can be fixed, but it comes out wrong, and suddenly I’m on the verge of crying. “It’s not my fault I can’t be like you, okay? I don’t get up in the morning thinking the world is one big shiny, happy place, okay? That’s just not how I work. Kent is an empathetic and genuinely kind friend, whose reluctance to engage in the cruelty and social posturing that is the norm at his high school makes him a truly unique character. Despite her relationship with Rob, Sam begins developing feelings for Kent, and though she grows increasingly frustrated and disheartened by the repetition of the time loop, she begins looking forward to connecting with Kent every day. At the beginning of the novel, Sam can hardly stand Kent, but as she relives Cupid Day over and over again, she comes to see how deeply Kent cares for her and how easily he sees past the cool veneer she has crafted for herself over the years. Kent throws a party on the night of Cupid Day-his parents are out of town, and, as he eventually reveals to Sam, he knew that if he had a party, she would probably show up to it. Kent is Sam’s childhood sweetheart, and an offbeat but nonetheless likable nerd who attempts, despite the social divisions now dividing them, to connect with Sam even after all the years of estrangement between them.
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