Two-Bit's cousin, Valerie, comes to spend her summer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had met the gang the previous year and she was just itching to spend another summer there with her cousin and her new friends. Valerie recently turned six-teen, and she had matured since her last stay in Tulsa. Everything goes well until Valerie catches a case of the "love bug" and falls for one of her closest friends, Johnny Cade. Told in first person point of view.