Elias has been obsessed with Elise Walters for ten years, ever since the quiet senior tutored him and he secretly collected her horror stories, yet he never worked up the nerve to ask her out.
When she shows up at his basketball game beside his best friend, James, she still knows him only as the basketball guy from high school.
Desperate for backup at their reunion, she begs James to fake-date her because the mean girl who once made her life miserable is still at it.
Elias offers himself instead, and Elise believes he is simply helping her spark jealousy before they part ways.
She does not realize he would seize any excuse to get close again after wanting her for a decade.
What she plans as a temporary fake date, he intends to turn into a second chance he will not give up.
