Olive later reconnects with Todd, her former love interest, who tells her he does not believe the rumors because she lied for him when he was not ready for his first kiss years ago. Olive gets asked out on a date by Anson, Rhiannon's crush, which ends badly when Anson bribes Olive to actually have sex with him and not just pretend that she did. The church youth group, which now includes Rhiannon, begins harassing Olive in an attempt to get her to drop out of school. Griffith, is Olive's favorite teacher, she accepts the blame to spare their marriage. Griffith, the school guidance counselor, and blames Olive. Things get worse when Micah, Marianne's boyfriend, contracts chlamydia from sleeping with Mrs. Boys who have had no previous luck with girls beg Olive to increase their popularity by saying they have had sex with her, which she does in exchange for gift cards to various stores. Brandon asks Olive to pretend to have sex with him at a party so the other students will believe he is straight, to which she agrees.Īfter a fight with Rhiannon over her new reputation as a "dirty skank", Olive decides to counteract the harassment by embracing her new image as the school tramp, wearing more provocative clothing and stitching a red "A" onto her clothing, inspired by Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter. Olive confides the truth to her friend Brandon, who is bullied by other students for being gay. The school's church group, run by Marianne, decides to "save" Olive from her supposed promiscuity. Marianne Bryant, a devout Christian whom Olive considers to be prudish, overhears her telling the lie and it soon spreads throughout the school.
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The following Monday, Rhiannon presses Olive until she lies about losing her virginity to a college boy.
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Instead, she hangs around the house all weekend listening to Natasha Bedingfield's " Pocketful of Sunshine" from a musical greeting card her grandmother sent her. Olive lies to her best friend, Rhiannon Abernathy, about going on a date in order to get out of camping with Rhiannon's hippie parents.
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The story is narrated by Olive Penderghast, a 17-year-old high school girl living in Ojai, California, speaking into her webcam.