Austin James was North Valley High's school player. Every girl adored him, except for Ashlee Brooke Taylor, the straight-A student. She never bothered with him and never wants to. But that's all about to change. When Austin has trouble with grades, the principal insists Ashlee be his tutor. All goes well when suddenly, they both become.... inseparable.... "I don't blame you. I deserved it. I knew you'd find out somehow." "But why did you do it?" "I don't know. I was stupid and.. I didn't think that I'd actually fall in love with you." "What?" "I know you know that I love you. I didn't think that I'd fall this hard. I am in love with you, Ashlee." "Austin, I-" "I am. I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."