All Alex's classmates know it: Simon is the coolest teacher.

When Stacy - the new kid with secrets, gleaming dark hair and a tongue ring - arrives at school, she sizes up Simon: "He's a total babe".

This is certainly true, but the story she tell about Alex and Simon isn't.

It just looks as if could be. And Alex herself begins to wonder what's real, what's not.

But she can't confide in her parents because after all she is crazy about Simon...just not in that way.

Listening to Stacy everyone seems totally suckered. The truth is hopelessly complicated and gets more so when Alex makes a surprise visit to Stacy's house.

She finds the answers to her questions, but also discovers something terrible...