Fourteen-year-old Nik is an up-and-coming track star. Her parents move her to inner city Chicago from downstate Illinois to compete in a larger market. Nik is quite disciplined; she lives by her own "to-do" list-Nik's List-and is quite successful at meeting each goal she writes. Like most kids, one item of great importance on Nik's List concerns the opposite sex, specifically kissing a boy. Little does Nik know that on the very first day at her new school, she would see the guy she was destined to kiss--Todd. Nik adjusts her list when she sees Todd; kissing him moves to first place. But Nik faces two problems: Todd's scheming girlfriend, and the fact that Nik has never kissed a boy. How can Nik fix a problem like that? Easily. Nik befriends Rusty to use for practice. Nothing could go wrong, right?