Plot Summary
Matt Donaghy was taken out of his study period to be questioned at the police station for what he did. Matt was clueless on what had even happened. It transitions from Matt almost breaking down and crying at the police station to Ursula Riggs, or as she calls herself "Ugly Girl", playing in a basketball game; Rocky River High School versus their rival Tarrytown's girls basketball team. Ursula, being the star player, for Rocky River, was extremely upset when "she lost the game", and wouldn't even come out of the showers until she heard about the supposed "bomb threat" about Matt Donaghy. Which Ugly Girl refused to believe and later on stood up for Matt, to Principal Parrish. Matt was kicked out of school for the "bomb threat" he had committed in lunch. What actually happened was Matt was joking around with his friends on what he would do if he didn't get his play published at the school, during lunch and he said in a joking manner "what am i going to do shoot everyone or blow up the school" he said this while making a gun gesture and hopping around, to make his friends laugh. But was misunderstood by some girls walking by who reported it to the principal, Mr. Parrish. Later, Matt and Ursula start contacting each other through e-mail about the bomb threat and how to get through this situation, and start to develop a friendship. They eventually hangout together at school, when Matt finally returns, and later on after-school by themselves. Then Matt's family brings the school to court for defamation of character which just makes Matt's life a living hell, and he eventually gets beat up by some senior jocks because of the court case, shortly after that Matt's dog Pumpkin was abducted, and Ursula confronts the jocks who beat up Matt, and Pumpkin returned shortly after Ursula threatened Trevor Cassity (the jock that beat up Matt). In the concluding pages of the book Matt's family drops the lawsuit, making Matt's life A LOT more manageable and easy, and ends with Matt and Ursula walking through the Rocky River Nature Reserve, and stop to sit down and end up kissing to end the book.