Plot

An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.

Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected.—Kevin Ackley <kackley1@aol.com>

Ronald Miller runs in the geek crowd. Although his best friend Kenneth Wurman embraces their geek status, Ronald wants to be popular, especially on the eve of their senior year at high school, which he sees as the most pivotal period in their social lives. Although he wants to be friends with all the cool kids, he especially pines after head cheerleader Cindy Mancini. He and Cindy and many of the kids have known each other since they were children, when they were all friends, but high school changed the social circles in which they traveled. Ronald seizes upon what he sees as an opportunity when he sees Cindy in a financial bind (at least in her own mind). He offers her a proposition: he will get her out of that $1,000 bind - money he worked all summer for to buy a telescope - as "rent" for her services as a girlfriend for one month, so that he can infiltrate the "in" crowd at their school. Regardless of the facts that she doesn't think the ploy will work and finds the thought of hanging out with him abhorrent, she reluctantly agrees. Through the process, both Ronald and Cindy will truly evaluate their past lives and to where they thought they were going, that future for Cindy which included waiting for her football playing boyfriend Bobby, who is away at college.—Huggo

Tucson, Arizona, 1987. Wondering what it would be like to hang out with the cool kids, nerdy high school senior Ronald Miller can't stop thinking about Cindy, the most beautiful girl in school and captain of the cheerleaders. And pining for popularity, Ronald has a wild idea: after spending all summer mowing lawns to save up for a telescope, he offers Cindy $1,000 to pose as his girlfriend for a month and prove his theory. However, fame and love don't work that way. Is Ronald prepared to get what he wished for?—Nick Riganas

To try and get out of his nerdy set, Ronald offers Cindy, cheerleader and school's most popular girl, a deal. She urgently needs $1,000 which he will let her have if she dates him for a month. Being desperate she grudgingly accepts, and soon starts to actually like him. But she finds his plan of becoming number one guy has worked and he has other fish to fry.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}