After she flops at washing hair at her mother's beauty shop, Irene is forced to take a job babysitting. It's at the beach, where she takes the kids to swim, that she first observes lifeguard Starla, a beautiful drama queen on whom she gets a girl crush.

Soon Irene checks out Starla's blog, and quickly realizes that Starla has noticed her--and appointed her the Witness, the person who will observe her vengeance against D., the boyfriend who dumped her. The role includes Irene's watching Starla key D.'s car.

When Irene discovers that D. is interested in her she knows that the countdown to real life is over and her fate is in her hands. Read My Almost Epic Summer.