Young Adult Revisited

There's some blah, blah, blah prologue from someone talking about killing a date before the book jumps to Demi. Demi is a super hot red head with pale skin who likes wear skintight clothing. The Salem newspaper recently introduced a personal ads section. Her best friend Shannon thinks the whole thing sounds cray-cray, but Demi thinks it would be fun to put an ad in the paper and maybe meet someone special. Instead of just putting up an ad like a normal person, she goes to the newspaper office and suggests writing an article about her experiences. She later tells Shannon and this European student Gigi that she has her first date set up for that weekend. Before she can go out with the guy, her old boyfriend Jack shows up. He flips out about her wanting to see other people, sneers at her, and even calls her "little" girl before warning her that she made a big mistake. Her first date is with Lance, a French major. He takes her to a foreign movie and keeps tra...

Della is upset with herself because she kind of gave her boyfriend Gary an ultimatum that led to them breaking up. After chatting with her best friend Maia about the upcoming overnight trip to Fear Island they're going on with the Outdoor Club, they head into the meeting where she sees Suki Thomas all up on Gary. Even though I always thought she was a preppy slut, she's apparently goth or alternative. She wears a short black leather skirt, a tight black sweater with a tear in one sleeve, and purple tights. Class clown Ricky comes in and hands over a plant to Gary. When he can't identify what it is, Ricky tells him it's poison ivy. Rolling his eyes, their advisor comes in and points out that it's actually grape ivy and harmless. He then tells them that because of a personal emergency, he has to go out of town and can't take them on the trip, so he wants to reschedule it. Suki convinces them to all go on the trip anyway and lie to their parents about ha...