As a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Eva Stuart worries constantly about being pretty. After seeing flowers delivered to her beautiful teacher, Miss Digby, Eva wonders if she will ever be the type of girl who receives flowers, too. She begins to fantasize about true love and even admires women who experience unrequited love. She subtly discusses her dreams and insecurities about beauty with her best friend Josie but becomes too embarrassed to speak more about it. When her class votes on superlatives, Eva is jokingly nominated for “best figure,” and she quickly laughs it off but grows insecure about her body. On the night of her school dance, another classmate catches Eva observing herself in the mirror and mocks her for believing she is pretty. She is saddened by the mean comment and feels downcast when the dance starts. When she sees a boy approaching her, she scolds herself for believing someone would want to dance with her, and she quickly runs away. She feels distraught and insecure, but when someone comes up to her, she realizes it was the boy who approached her earlier. He clarifies that was going to ask her to dance, and the two teenagers begin to talk easily. He picks a pink flower from a nearby bush and gives it to Eva. This is her first-ever flower.