As for Ben, though LoToya accepts his apology, she is furious with him once again as he turns down going to prom with her for the sake of Mandy. But for the former, the misunderstanding is cleared, as Graham had spent time with the other girl so that he could orchestrate the perfect “promposal” for Mandy. In school, Mandy ignores Graham exactly the way LoToya ignores Ben. When Ben takes a crying Mandy home, they reaffirm their pact to go to prom together. Nevertheless, he comes to pick her up, leaving behind a fuming LoToya. She calls Ben to come pick her up but backtracks when she realizes that he is on a date. But when she hears Graham’s brothers talking about how he brought Mandy to the fundraiser to look smart but had actually spent the entire morning with another girl, she is heartbroken and decides to leave. Later, when Graham is briefly distracted, Mandy runs into his father and, because of her feelings for him, decides not to ask the senator for a recommendation letter. When they are slow-dancing on stage, there is no hiding their feelings anymore, and they end up kissing. She was also happy to go to his birthday dinner.Ĭome Saturday, Mandy is looking like a million bucks, and she goes to the fundraiser with Graham. She went to the movies with him and would have also gone for waffles if he wasn’t so dense. Mandy’s absence in Ben’s life had worked out in his favor because he found that LoToya liked him as much as he liked her. But Mandy makes up for it by getting Ben to ask LoToya, his high school crush, for dinner on that day. Sadly, the fundraiser is on the same day as Ben’s birthday. Mandy encourages him to not live his life for his dad’s approval, and he ends up asking her to go to a fundraiser with him. When dropping off Mandy, Graham tells her that Harvard was his first choice as well, but his dad did not let him apply because he did not believe in him. Regardless, Graham’s mother finds out that Mandy wants to go to Harvard and promises to put in a good word with her husband. Mandy misses movie night with Ben because she stays back for dinner with Graham and his family, but the senator doesn’t come home at the last minute. It is during this time that he really opens up to her about how his father constantly undermines him. Mandy is surprised that she is checking her appearance right before she goes to Graham’s place to tutor him. And there is some tension between them, which they notice when Graham tries to teach her how to play basketball. He notices little things about her, like the fact that she is a vegetarian, even though she never told him so. He is certainly good-looking and has an easy manner about him. Also, since she is always with Graham, she starts seeing him in a new light. But due to her time with Graham, she has not been spending as much time with Ben. This trick works, and Graham’s grades start improving. To keep the lessons going, Mandy comes up with the idea to teach him while he is playing. Graham and Mandy start studying together, but they are finding it difficult to do so because Graham gets restless rather quickly, and Mandy doesn’t like him very much, to begin with. Graham asks her what the catch is, but she lies to him and says there are no strings attached. She speaks with Graham and offers to tutor him as an apology for what she said at the party. The next day, she goes for a group activity, hoping to run into him, and her efforts bear some fruit. Regardless, she goes to a party with Ben to seek out Graham but only catches his attention when she accidentally badmouths him. ![]() The only problem is that she has never liked him, and he doesn’t even know that she exists. Since she can’t ask him directly for a recommendation, she decides to go through his son, Graham Lansing, who is a popular football player in their school. ![]() She doesn’t specifically tell her to go to him, but that is where Mandy sets her sights. She mentions that Senator Lansing is Harvard’s alma mater, and a prominent name like his could do the trick for her. Chen, the school’s guidance counselor, and she tells Mandy that a recommendation letter might help her. When Mandy comes to know that her application for Harvard has been waitlisted, she is heartbroken and has all but given up, but Ben tells her to get her fight on and figure out a way to turn it into an acceptance. All Mandy has ever wanted was to get into Harvard, and all her friend, Ben, wants is to get the entirety of the high school experience, with the parties, the dating, and everything in between.
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