Mel doesn't get along well with her mother; she has a good reason--her mother's an alcoholic. No matter how Mel feels, she never wishes her mother dead, and when her mother's morning drink lands them both in a hospital, Mel finds herself alone in her senior year of high school. Just when Mel starts to adapt to the lonely changes around her, and Kath's strange behavior, her Adonis appears. She fantasizes that he is the love of her life. There's only one problem--he has a secret, and it appears the redhead following him around school is part of it. It's the first time Mel's desire trumps her goals.