Annabelle, a mentally challenged youth attending a high school which lacks social guidance, meets David Richards, a new transfer student, in this girl-meets-boy story. Annabelle is socially inept, desperate for friends, and doesn't realize her friendship with Nikki Schwartz and David Richards will be a destructive force in her life. Annabelle never considered having a boyfriend until Nikki makes her realize there is such a thing. Annabelle believes David is interested in her, but David only wants to use his relationship with Annabelle to gain popularity by bragging to his friends of his sexual exploitation. When people find out about their sexual relations, Annabelle becomes the center of rumors and inquiries. Her need for friendship and David's forceful personality overwhelm Annabelle. She does not understand David's taking advantage of her, and Annabelle believes she alone is to blame for what has happened. Questions surround their relationship. Was Annabelle raped by David, or did Annabelle know what she was doing?