When Megan, Kit, Mia, and Elaine made their promise to be friends forever, they were just kids, and life was much less complicated. Now they.re juniors in high school, and one of them is in big trouble.

Kit is pregnant, with dangerous complications, and desperately needs her friends. help. Her home life is a mess, with her father long gone and her mother seldom on the scene. Kit.s one-time boyfriend is history, and he doesn.t know about the baby. Megan, Mia and Elaine are determined to come to her rescue, working out a schedule to be with her each day. For Megan, helping Kit means lying and breaking promises, and she begins to ask questions about the pact, about friendship, andabout love and sex! But when she writes down some of her own answers, and plans to print them in school paper, it leads to an explosive confrontation with consequences Megan never expected.