1. Why would people lie about whether or not someone had asked them out for a date?

2. How are Nicole and Chase going to handle the new reality that their parents are living together?

3. How likely is it that Nicole's mother and father are bitterly divorcing because her father likes to patronize a strip club?

4. What could possibly be going on in their breakup that neither of Nicole's parents will tell her why they are divorcing?

5. The novel barely mentions schoolwork, a major element of high school life. Nicole says she breezes through her homework in minutes, and classes seem to take place, but the main characters are preoccupied by other matters. Are classes not the center of a high school's activities? Why leave them out of a novel about high school students?

6. Why does Chase go to the prom by himself? What does he...