Then one day she receives one of her own. The sender is charming and she starts chatting with him. When she learns that he likes to do on-line roleplaying, she invites him to join her game. Soon enough, they are falling for each other.
What they don't initially realize (although he figures it out before she does) is that they are actually classmates. And so a series of set ups occur where the two of them have near misses. In the end of course all is revealed and a number of other loose ends including vanquishing a bully ensue.
It's cute and fast-paced, but it's hard to accept that Ingrid could overlook all of the clues regarding her online friend's identity. There is also a mismatch between the characters' ages and the way they behave. While there's a token effort to portray Ingrid's adolescent insecurity, she does a remarkable job of dispatching her tormenting ex-friend. Her feelings for the mystery boy are strikingly level-headed (and his reciprocal feelings are equally grown up). They simply don't sound like middle schoolers.
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