Prologue: The Last Day of Summer

Geeky, Joseph is tired of his small island life on Guam. The only thing that keeps him going is his crush on his poetess best friend, Tasi. He promises that junior year will be the year he'll tell his feelings to her, but what happens when she freaks out?
He gets with Shinto, the school slut, to make Tasi jealous but Shinto shows him that she's more than a party girl. She shows him that island life isn't all that boring...