The Perks of Being a Wallflower starts out a few days before the main character's, Charlie, first day of High School and tells us a bit about Charlie's past life. How he had a friend in Middle School who passed away and how they used to be really close. Then we go to the first day of High School. Charlie's first day was kind of awkward. He did make some new friends though, Sam and Patrick. Sam and Patrick are step brother and sister and great friends for a boy like Charlie. They met at a football game and they invited Charlie to a party afterwards where he accidentally got stoned. Ever since then they were all really good friends. When the dance came Charlie was asked out by a girl named Mary Elizabeth, he was secretly hoping for Sam to ask him but being realistic that would've never happened. So he said yes and ever since then they started going out. One day Charlie decided he didn't really like her because all she did was talk, and suggest, and talk, and suggest, and talk talk talk. So at a party when Patrick dared him to kiss the prettiest person in the room, he kissed Sam thus ending things with Mary Elizabeth. Later Mary Elizabeth found a guy named Peter, Sam found a guy named Craig, Patrick found a guy named Brad and all was good. Sort of.
Charlie is a nice kind of guy, although he's kind of depressed. After his aunt died he became very sensitive and on top of that his best friend died so you could see why he would be depressed. Sam is a pretty girl in Charlie's eyes. Charlie's sister claims that she suffers from low self-esteem but we never know for sure. She's a great friend for Charlie because she always helps him with his problems but causes some awkward moments with Charlie. Patrick is gay if you haven't already figured. This makes it easier for Charlie to talk to him and for Patrick to help Charlie out. Now, Sam and Patrick are three grades above Charlie so if you think there would be some hanky-panky going on between them then drop it because nothing like that happens. Right?
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