The Snooty Scholar and the Duck Dancer

You will never forget your first true love, even if you collect a thousand and one girlfriends and live up to a hundred years.

Dante Torrentilla's story is Everyman's story of this magical thing called first love -- the first stirrings of one's affection and caring thoughts for another.

This kind of love dwells in the heart and soul as long as one lives, no matter what, even as you believe that this chapter has been turned and you have moved on with your own life with another girl, and another girl, and another girl... and so on...

To most of the girls in Hummingbird High, Dante is every inch a prince charming -- good looking, neat, mindful of a gentleman's ways, and very bright -- that kind of guy every girl would want to bring home and introduce to mama, so to speak.

But Dante has this consuming ambition to be either a scientist or a medical doctor in the future. When teased about girls and romance, he is often heard wise-cracking: " Studies and girls are like oil and water; mixing them while pursuing education is an exercise in futility."

This is why a lot of girls who fail to win his attention call him snooty, conceited, nerd. The only girl in town who is able to win Dante's friendship is his classmate Marijo Labrador. Dante accepts her into her all-male circle of friends because she has made it to the male-dominated honor roll of the senior class. He tells everybody, though, that their friendship should never be misunderstood by anyone. His foremost concern is his studies, no more, no less.

Until Dante finds himself smitten by a freshman high school girl who "duck dances " her way to his heart -- unintentionally, though. Thus begins an enthraling story of first love that has to pass the tests of time.