Chon, who saw the girls being harassed, swept into the rescue and bought the beverages for Nam and her friends. While lining up for refreshments, Nam and her friends are disturbed by two boys who rudely cut in front of them. She and her sister are promised a plane ticket if they ever rank first in school. An average student, she begins to take her studies seriously in hopes of seeing her father in the United States who works there as a chef's assistant. She hangs out with her three best friends known as the Cheer Gang and helps her mother out in their family-owned bed and breakfast.
She harbors a crush on Chon, a good-looking and popular tenth-grade freshman from her school who she feels is way out of her league. Nam is a bespectacled, swarthy 14-year-old seventh-grader who is considered unattractive.
