Olive Smith

Olive Smith is the main character and narrator of the novel. Olive finds herself in a difficult spot after she kisses a random man in the hallway of the biology building to make her best friend, Anh, believe she has a love interest. Olive is more concerned with Anh’s happiness than her own embarrassment. Olive is disturbed later when she discovers that she not only made Anh believe she was dating the man she kissed, who turned out to be the professor, Adam Carlsen, but has made the rest of the faculty and student body believe she is dating him as well.

Olive and Adam decide to fake date, a relationship that Adam convinces Olive will benefit both of them. Olive does not know at this point that Adam has had a secret crush on her since they met three years before. Olive had run into...