-There is a car crash on a rainy night.

-Miles is going to Culver Creek Academy; a boarding school that his father attended.

-Alaska leaves for school without saying bye to her dad.

-Marya, Alaska's roommate, plans to have sex with Paul in their room.

-Alaska convinces Gus, the cashier at the liquor store to sell alcohol to her after charming him with her maturity level.

-Miles sees Alaska for the first time outside of the liquor store.

-Miles meets Chip, better known as the Colonel, his roommate

. -Miles, now dubbed Pudge by the Colonel, knows last words.

-Colonel takes on the Weekday Warriors, rich kids who go home on the weekends.

-Takumi, the Colonel's friend, knows everything going on at Culver Creek.

-The Eagle gives Pudge a veiled warning, not to become like his father, who was a well-known prankster while at the school.

-Pudge meets Alaska, and the first thing she does is have him grab her boob.

-Alaska buries her wine in the woods.

-The Colonel brings Pudge to the Smoking Hole.

-Pudge won't leave before Alaska comes.

-Alaska and Pudge hang out at the Smoking Hole and exchange flirtations. Alaska tells Pudge she will get him a girlfriend.

-Marya and Paul get caught by the Eagle while smoking pot, drinking, and having sex, and get expelled.

-The gang meets Lara, another new student.

-Mr. Hyde is the religions teacher that Pudge seems immediately inspired by.

-Pudge eats his first buffrito; a fried burrito.

-The Weekday Warriors try to recruit Pudge.

-The Colonel and his girlfriend Sara have a volatile relationship.

-The Weekday Warriors saran wrap Pudge and throw him in the lake.

-Pudge is attacked by the swan.

-Pudge goes to Alaska, and she slams the door in his face.

-The Weekday Warriors took things too far. Normally they just throw people in the lake.

-The Colonel, Takumi, and Alaska want revenge for what happened to Pudge.

-Alaska apologizes to Pudge.

-The first day of school is 102 days before the car accident.