Kevin is madly infatuated with Lisa Berlini. After their “four-minute phone call” he is ready to make his big move. He asks Lisa to the Junior High dance, and she accepts!
Against the backdrop of Martin Luther King’s famed civil rights crusades, Kevin falls in love with his English teacher and agrees to do the one thing he hates most to please her.
Everyone knows that going steady is a prerequisite to being cool in junior high and Kevin ends up joining the ranks a bit prematurely.
Kevin is happy with his new girlfriend Becky; they like the same things, such as Oreos and making out, and everything seems simple.
Kevin learns first-hand the old adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
