Known throughout the school for her selflessness and perfect grades, there's not a single underclassman who doesn't look up to Yaya Suo-including Ichigo Hinamori. Turned down by her crush because of her childish image, Ichigo idolizes Yaya and wishes nothing more than to be as mature and elegant as her senpai. But Ichigo's perfect image of Yaya is shattered when she comes across her wallowing in self-pity in the nurse's office one day. The real Yaya is clumsy, clingy, and selfish-not at all like the perfect act she puts on. What's more, she's desperately starved for attention and now she won't leave Ichigo alone.

Hitomi Kujo, self-proclaimed rival of Yaya Suo, is tired of losing both the school's top spot and Ichigo's affection to the class princess and demands that they settle the score one and for all through a series of contests. But Yaya's obsession with perfection is driven less by competitive spirit and more from a deep fear of failure. Ichigo's the only one she trusts to accept her true self-flaws and all. When the three of them are cast for a student film production, Yaya opens up to Ichigo and Hitomi about the trauma from her past…