Summary-
Simon Kelleher is the author of the gossip page About That, in which he spreads secrets and hateful comments about his peers at Bayview High School. One day in afterschool detention, Simon has an allergic reaction and dies. Four students witnessed his death, Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, and Cooper, who were all in detention after they were caught with phones in class. The Police find that there was peanut oil in the cup that Simon had drunk out of, and they realize that it was not just a coincidence. Someone had posted online that Simon’s death was not just a coincidence and that one of the four students who were in detention with Simon was the murderer. The police find a reason for every one of them to be the killer in Simon’s last report
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In school, there are stereotypes that cause everyone to think just because a person has one thing that it completes them and they can be no different than what is expected of them. Cooper is lying because he needs to fit the jock stereotype and have to be interested in girls and the things the rest of the other baseball players are interested in to keep his dad happy. The main thing he is lying to himself about is that he thinks nobody will expect him to be gay. In order to keep up with this, he dates a girl who in the end gets hurt. Everyone thinks that Addy is shallow, and the only thing she cares about is dating one of the most popular guys in the school when in reality she doesn’t need a boyfriend to make her happy, and that she is just fine on her own. Nate has to fit in with the druggie stereotype, when the only reason he deals drugs, is because his dad is a drunk and his mom chose drugs over him. Bronwyn lies to herself because she believes the most important thing in life is getting into college, but she soon realizes that there is more to life than