Everyone heard that Nick, the most popular guy at Kennedy High, asked me (the least popular girl), to the dance. And
everyone heard I turned him down. So suddenly, I'm famous. I've gone from a nobody to a "girld of mystery" overnight. No one, it seems, has ever turned Nick down, and no one's more shocked than Mr. Popularity himself. But no one, especially Nick, would believe why I said no...
..... A
different girl every
night. Cutting classes. Detention at least three times a week. A different girl every night. I had no doubt. Nick Adriano might be every girl's dream at Kennedy High, but he'd never been mine. Yeah, he was amazing looking, but whatever it was that guys like Nick Adriano talked about, I was sure it wasn't anything that I talked about. I mean, what would we possibly have to say to each other? I doubted that Nock was into nuclear fusion. What did guys like Nick talk about? Did they talk? "It occurred to me," Nick suddenly murmured in a low voice as if he feared someone other than me might hear him. "that you probably didn't realise I was serious about us going to the dance together." Huh? So he had been serious? .....