Kit Lowell sits at David Drucker's lunch table for the first time, shocking him deeply.

David follows Kit to the school bleachers after she walks out of physics class.

David and Kit discuss quantum physics and whether human consciousness survives death during a car ride.

David's older sister Miney returns home from college unexpectedly for an open-ended stay.

Kit and Jack search Robert's office and Kit discovers a divorce petition citing adultery.

Kit confronts her mother Mandip and learns that Mandip had an affair with Jack.

David gets a new haircut and wardrobe at Miney's urging, shocking his classmates.

Justin and Gabriel steal David's private notebook from him at school.

David's stolen notebook is published online and he receives violent death threats from classmates.

The school football team surrounds David in the parking lot and threatens him with violence.

David uses his Krav Maga training to fight off the football players.

Kit barges into the principal's office and defends David, preventing him from being sent to another school.

David and Kit share their first kiss at a house party.

David loudly declares in a diner that Kit was driving the car the night her father died.

David and Kit meet at the school bleachers and agree to remain friends.

Kit Lowell, grieving after her father's death, begins sitting at lunch with David Drucker, a neurodivergent student who has always sat alone. Their friendship deepens through honest conversations about loss, but the stakes rise when Kit discovers her mother had an affair with her father's best friend. Bullies steal and publish David's private notebook online, leading to a violent confrontation with the football team that nearly gets David expelled. Kit's courageous defense before the school principal saves him from being sent away. They share their first kiss at a party, but everything fractures when David—fixated on solving the mystery of the accident—blurts out in a diner that Kit was driving the night her father died. After painful days apart, the two meet at the school bleachers and choose to remain in each other's lives.

The headline events of Kit and David's unlikely friendship.

David bluntly mentions Kit's recently deceased father during their very first lunch together.

Kit's friends Annie and Violet confront her about growing distant from them.

Kit flees from her friends and misses a newspaper club meeting, costing her the editor-in-chief position.

David agrees to join the Academic League after Kit's presence at lunch inspires him.

Kit and David run into each other at the pharmacy and share ice cream together.

Kit admits to David that she cannot sleep because she obsessively replays the details of her father's crash.

Kit recognizes that the notebook published online by her classmates belongs to David.

Kit goes to the Pizza Palace and confronts Justin and Gabriel, retrieving David's stolen notebook.

David stays home from school for several days after his notebook is published online.

Kit returns David's notebook to him when he finally comes back to school.

The Drucker family takes Kit out for burgers to celebrate after the principal's meeting.

Kit and David attend the house party together at Annie and Violet's insistence.

Police arrive and break up the party.

David meets Kit at a diner and proposes that Robert was not the one driving during the accident.

Kit tells Annie and Violet the full truth about driving the car the night her father died.

From the very first lunch where David bluntly mentions Kit's dead father, small and honest moments quietly build the friendship between the two. Kit grows increasingly distant from her friends Annie and Violet while David finds new motivation to join the Academic League, connecting with the world around him in a new way. When David's notebook is published, Kit is the one who steps up to retrieve it from the bullies, choosing his side at real social cost. Even as their friendship shifts and tensions rise, Kit keeps choosing David—attending the party with him and, after their falling out, finding the courage to tell her friends the full truth about the accident. These secondary scenes carry much of the emotional weight of Kit's healing journey and show how her friendship with David steadily pushes her toward greater honesty.

The quieter moments that built Kit and David's bond.

Kit walks out of physics class mid-lesson, unable to hold herself together.

David's guitar instructor Trey urges him to perform in a showcase, but David refuses.

Robert's best friend Jack calls Mandip about the will while Mandip refuses to discuss it.

Kit impulsively steals a bite of David's ice cream during their outing together.

David proposes the Accident Project to help Kit figure out if the crash could have been prevented.

Miney advises David about his romantic feelings for Kit and urges him to update his wardrobe.

Kit notices and compliments David's new haircut, telling him his new look is really good.

David recalls the Locker Room Incident, in which Justin shoved his head in a toilet and locked him in a locker.

David compulsively flaps his arms after learning his stolen notebook has been published online.

Annie and Violet side with Kit and help her confront Justin and Gabriel at the Pizza Palace.

Miney confesses to David that she too suffered a public humiliation at college.

David realizes mid-conversation that Trey is his social skills tutor, not just a guitar teacher.

Kit texts David to clarify that she genuinely wanted to kiss him, regardless of how much she drank.

Kit is horrified when David publicly reveals her secret in the diner in front of other classmates.

Kit and David hold hands at the school bleachers, leaving their romantic future open.

A series of small but charged moments gradually transforms both Kit and David throughout the novel. Kit walking out of class, Jack's suspicious call about the will, and David's proposal of the Accident Project each quietly set later revelations in motion. As David's new look wins Kit's approval and their friendship deepens, the theft of his notebook triggers a deeply personal crisis—complete with a flashback to a traumatic bullying incident—that tests both characters' resilience. Miney's confession about her own college struggles and David's discovery that Trey is his social skills tutor mark private turning points in his growing self-awareness. The story reaches its emotional peak when Kit's secret is accidentally exposed in a diner, and the novel closes with the two quietly holding hands at the school bleachers, their future left warmly unresolved.