Description: All Alex's classmates know it: Simon is the coolest teacher. When Stacy - the new kid with secrets, gleaming dark hair and a tongue ring - arrives at school, she sizes up Simon: "He's a total babe". This is certainly true, but the story she tells about Alex and Simon isn't. It just looks as if it could be. And Alex finds herself beginning to wonder what's real and what's not. But she can't confide in her parents because after all she IS crazy about Simon... just not in that way. Listening to Stacy, everyone seems totally suckered. The truth is hopelessly complicated and gets more so when Alex makes a surprise visit to Stacy's house. She finds the answers to her questions, but also discovers something terrible...