Sounds like it makes more sense laid out like that. Doing Kalen and Brendan as kids in flashbacks probably makes the most sense.
Not sure how to get Calla meeting Kalen in there other than more flashbacks. But then it becomes a thing so you either avoid constant flashbacks or you really sell it and have every chapter have a flashback. At least the first 5 scenes as each POV is introduced. Then sporadically throughout the rest of the book whenever something happens in their life that could be mirrored from a childhood or augmented with some event from their past.
It's one way to go.
After you get through the initial 5 POVs try not to go too long before bringing Wes and Kalen back in. Like you could bounce between the other three for 7 or so chapters but then stick a Kalen chapter in just to remind readers there are other POVs, you know. It doesn't all have to be equal.
The book I'm reading now started with three POVs: Kira, Marcus and Samm. Actually I think there was just one scene from Samm's POV (the 1st chapter). Then it goes back and forth between Kira and Samm but the number of chapters each one gets is completely random (sometime they get 1 chapter before switching, sometimes 5).
Samm eventually ends up with Kira on a cross country journey but so far his POV hasn't shown up again. Which is fine but it bugs the crap out of me that it was introduced at all if it's just going to be 1 chapter. Be consistent is what I'm trying to say (I guess).
Re: scene 3
Not sure how to get Calla meeting Kalen in there other than more flashbacks. But then it becomes a thing so you either avoid constant flashbacks or you really sell it and have every chapter have a flashback. At least the first 5 scenes as each POV is introduced. Then sporadically throughout the rest of the book whenever something happens in their life that could be mirrored from a childhood or augmented with some event from their past.
It's one way to go.
After you get through the initial 5 POVs try not to go too long before bringing Wes and Kalen back in. Like you could bounce between the other three for 7 or so chapters but then stick a Kalen chapter in just to remind readers there are other POVs, you know. It doesn't all have to be equal.
The book I'm reading now started with three POVs: Kira, Marcus and Samm. Actually I think there was just one scene from Samm's POV (the 1st chapter). Then it goes back and forth between Kira and Samm but the number of chapters each one gets is completely random (sometime they get 1 chapter before switching, sometimes 5).
Samm eventually ends up with Kira on a cross country journey but so far his POV hasn't shown up again. Which is fine but it bugs the crap out of me that it was introduced at all if it's just going to be 1 chapter. Be consistent is what I'm trying to say (I guess).