When seventeen-year old Lela Rivers is convinced by her best friend Bianca James to go to a senior party, Ash Daniels suddenly appears in her life. Ash is a stunningly attractive egoistic jerk who has a hobby for breaking the hearts of all his "victims". He was in the middle of rejecting yet another love confession when he suddenly notices a girl passed out on the balcony. He goes over to help her, never suspecting that she will forever change his bad boy ways.