I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Chloe contemplates the note Shara left in Rory’s student file, and she recognizes the postscript as a lyric from “Think of Me” the song Chloe sang in the school’s performance of The Phantom of the Opera. She remembers that during her solo, Shara sat in the front row of the auditorium to watch her. She recruits Rory and Smith to join her in the auditorium to find the next note. Smith finds the note attached to the leg of the seat in which Shara sat to watch Phantom.

In the note, Shara reveals that the reason she and a girl named Summer are no longer friends is that Summer caught Shara with a boy named Ace. She also recalls watching Chloe perform “Think of Me.” Smith confronts Ace, but Ace indicates that he and Shara weren’t together romantically. Shara had been helping him practice for the spring musical audition, and when Summer stopped by his house, she saw Shara leaving. Shara had warned Ace that if he told anyone she helped him she would report him to her dad for smoking weed.

Rory finds the next note in the football stadium, where Shara kissed Smith right in front of him.