The book ends with one last chance meeting between Michael and Katherine, in which Katherine thinks, and tries to say with her eyes, that she does not regret the relationship, but she's not ready for "forever".
She gives back the necklace, and he drives off in a near-rage. At a motel room later that night, Katherine is unresponsive, and Michael knows, without her admitting it, that she is involved with someone else.
After Katherine is unable to answer Michael's next letters, he shows up at her camp, where his first sight of Katherine is her and Theo hand-in-hand. They kiss, and Theo is the first to pull away ("Not with death for an excuse."). Katherine tries to ignore the sexual tension between herself and Theo, but when she is stricken with grief on the death of her grandfather, Theo is the first person she turns to.
Theo calls her Kat, even though she is at first highly irritated with the nickname. Katherine finds herself aware of the limitations of the relationship and is ultimately attracted to a tennis instructor, Theo, who is older than Michael. That summer, both sets of parents make plans that will take Katherine and Michael to two different states. Michael buys Katherine a necklace for her birthday that says "Katherine" on one side and "Forever.Michael" on the other. When Katherine and Michael do have sex on Michael's sister's living room floor in her apartment, they are sure it seals a love that will be "forever". Michael teaches Katherine how to hold his penis (nicknamed "Ralph") and how to rub it correctly. Katherine and Michael go on a skiing trip, where they plan to have sex, but Katherine has her period, and they are disappointed. Their relationship progresses slowly as they begin to go on dates and trips together they are accompanied on various meetings by Katherine's friend, Erica, who has known Katherine since the 9th grade and believes that sex is a physical act and not very romantic, and believes Katherine should "just get it out of the way." Erica and Katherine are also joined by Michael's friend Artie, who got together with Erica. Both of them are aware that physical intimacy is both common and complicated. As their relationship unfolds, the issue of sex comes up more as an emotional and health issue than as a moral one. Katherine, in the middle of her senior year in high school, finds herself strongly attracted to Michael, a boy she meets at a New Year's party. Because of the novel's content it has been the frequent target of censorship and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven. is a 1975 novel by Judy Blume dealing with teenage sexuality.
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