Plot

Nicole and Chase used to be BFFs, then junior high happened. The high school centennial dance is coming but Nicole gets dumped. So does Chase. They stage a relationship to get at their exes. They visit each other's worlds. Love in the air?

Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors but are from two very different worlds. Despite their differences their love lives have a common theme. Their most recent plans for love have fallen through putting them both in a desperate state to fix them. Both Nicole and Chase conspire to pretend to find a romantic interest in each other, with the hopes of attracting the "ones who got away" from them. Leading up to the big school dance, Chase and Nicole find that their scam worked out better than they had planned.

Nicole Maris is a popular high school preppy senior in Utah who gets her life turned upside down when her perfect date, Brad, falls for a cute cheerleader from another school a month before the school's centennial senior prom. After recovering from the shock, Nicole comes up with a solution to save her reputation: find a guy to appear like they're going steady and to take her to the dance hoping to make Brad jealous. Nicole then hooks up with her next door neighbor, prankster and trouble maker Chase Hammond, and tries to model him in her own image while he's looking to make his long-term girlfriend Dulcie jealous too. However, both Nicole and Chase don't expect their charade to lead it where they never expected it to.—Matt Patay

Nicole is popular and stylish and has her sights set on one thing, the gala centennial celebration theme for the prom. She has always been into doing good for the planet. Her second sights are on a date to escort her. But when her dream date invites another girl, Nicole must act fast to find a substitute. She decides to go low and asks her grungy next door neighbor to take her there. But first, he needs a little work done to himself. She gives him a fashion make over to show his true handsome self.—Kyle <Kyleshivers@aol.com>

Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase (Adrian Grenier) have lived next door to each other their whole lives and were childhood best friends, until junior high when Nicole joined the popular crowd while Chase began to rebel and pull pranks around school (Like mixing orange dye into the school's water supply and turning the sprinklers on during lunch time, drenching everyone in orange color), constantly landing him in detention.

During their senior year, Nicole devotes much of her time and energy into planning their high school's centennial dance, which she expects to go to with a basketball player named Brad (Gabriel Carpenter) but he falls in love with a cheerleader from a rival school and asks her to the dance instead of Nicole. Chase is dating Dulcie (Ali Larter), though she ultimately leaves him for a socially conscious college student. Dulcie says that Chase's rebel image is a huge fake. Nicole's parents are divorces. She stays with her mom Mrs. Maris (Faye Grant), while her dad Mr. Maris (Stephen Collins) has visitation rights.

Nicole knows she will be treated as a loser and asks Chase to take her to the centennial as his date. Chase agrees, but Nicole says if people are going to buy it, they will both really need to be into the whole "dating" thing. The idea is to get Brad and Dulcie back. Nicole gives Chase a complete wardrobe makeover. One night, Nicole calls Chase and asks him to the dance, suggesting that they pretend to date to make Brad and Dulcie jealous, he agrees to her scheme and they both agree to have an easy out clause in the relationship, so it can end at any time with no hard feelings.

Nicole gives Chase a makeover so that he fits in better with her friend group and takes him to events where he becomes friends with the popular kids, all while insisting to his old friends, Dave (Mark Webber) and Ray (Kris Park), that the whole thing is just a scam and that he hasn't really changed, though it's clear to them that he has. While Chase does all the activities Nicole asks him to with little resistance, he eventually points out that everything they've done is for her benefit. Nicole agrees to do whatever he wants, and they go to a club he used to frequent with Dulcie, where Nicole has a good time and begins bonding with his friends.

Chase has a run in with Dulcie and her new boyfriend, Nicole comes to his aid and kisses him, which makes Dulcie jealous. Nicole and Chase begin to fall in love but don't admit their feelings, to each other or themselves, and continue their ruse. Nicole apologizes to Chase for abandoning him as a friend. When Nicole's vindictive best friend, Alicia (Susan May Pratt), seduces Chase at a party (by making him see that Nicole is pursuing Brad and has no interest in him), making sure Nicole would see them together, leaving Nicole heartbroken.

Chase calls Dave to pick him up, since he is too drunk to drive, and angers Dave when he says that "everyone" was at the party, which Dave says is not true because he and Ray were not there, reminding him they used to be his friends. Meanwhile, Brad and his girlfriend break up and Dulcie also ends things with her new boyfriend. Chase attempts to talk to Nicole about what happened with Alicia, but she rebuffs him, reminding him of the easy out clause, she also ignores his calls.

Chase eventually makes up with his friends and gets back together with Dulcie. Brad finally asks Nicole to the dance. Despite getting what they both wanted from the beginning, Chase is unhappy with Dulcie and Nicole rejects Brad.

The night of the dance, with no date, Nicole calls Ray, who had offered to take her earlier, and goes to the dance with him. While Chase is out with Dulcie, she realizes he doesn't want to be there, or be with her. Ray and Nicole have fun together at the dance, but he leaves when Chase arrives, knowing that despite their claims that their relationship was never real, Chase is the one she wants to be with. Chase asks Nicole to dance, she asks who they're trying to make jealous now, he tells her everyone.

In the final scene, Chase and Nicole come home early the next morning and Nicole walks Chase to his door, they kiss then find her mother with his father. Their parents tell them that they're also in a relationship and are going to move in together. Nicole suggests she and Chase discuss the new living arrangements in the tree-house they used to play in as children. They hold hands as they walk into Nicole's backyard, then hug and kiss under the tree-house.