Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Forget Me Not
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Book #2	Secrets of Dorley Hall
Chapter	8
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Date posted	Aug 22, 2022
Word count	25,347
Points of view	Lorna, Christine, Melissa, Stef, Shahida, Aaron, Maria
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Content warnings
Content warnings: disordered eating, self-harm, suicidal ideation
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Chapter 23: Forget Me Not is the eighth chapter of the second book of the series, Secrets of Dorley Hall, and twenty-third chapter overall.

The chapter title references the message from Melissa’s mother to her, and also forget-me-not flowers symbolising her birth month, and eye colour.

The chapter contains fourteen scenes, which all take place on Wednesday, 11 December 2019.

Plot

Vicky and Lorna catch up with Shahida and learn about her search for Melissa

Bella organises the next steps to deal with the emergency

Christine’s academic progress review with Marianne Dawson is interrupted by Faye and Bex turning up to retrieve her

Melissa is in Manchester ignoring her phone

Christine returns to deal with the current Dorley ess-show

Showering, Aaron asks for Stephanie’s new name

Christine pulls Paige out of her lecture to go fetch Abby

Stef and Aaron continue to talk over a late pizza lunch, and he kisses her

Christine and Paige meet Abby‘s family

Abby tells Liss the bad news about Shahida

Further discussion of the Shahida problem in the Dorley kitchen, during which Abby calls Shahida

Shahida meets Christine and Abby at Egg Nation, and unintentionally learns a clue

Aaron continues to think about what is happening to him, staring into his mirror

Maria reviews the events of the day, and Indira tells her she needs to go see Aaron

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