"My old man he, he is just that. Mine. Mine. Mine. And I know that might be childish and that might be because I am a child but that doesn't matter. Not to him and not to me. Because we love each other and that's all there is to it, really. At least to us, the others might think different. So I keep it a secret, us a secret, and I don't regret it a second. Well, at the beginning I didn't. " ___ Lola loves James and James loves Lola but it's hard to keep being head over heels for a 37 year old English teacher a secret, especially when your mom is trying to marry him, your best guy friend is in love with you and you're just a thirteen year old girl trying to find out who you really are. [ A modern day Lolita.]