Prequel to Heart (Book)(Possible)

== Description ==
The prequel to the book Heart is a possible story that would show the dynamic between Stacey and Rose the summer before they start college.
It would also show the events leading up to Stanley taking the babysitter case.
The book could replace the need to have flashbacks, or fewer flashbacks in Heart.
== Plot ==
Currently the plot is very basic. The story revolves around a road trip that Claudia, Rose, Stacey, Miguel and maybe others go on. The focus of the tension involves Stacey telling Rose that she has feelings for her, as well as a frenemy type dynamic between either Rose and Claudia or Claudia and Rose.
Rose presumably has a long distance relationship with a boy. Even though Stacey tells Rose how she feels at the beginning, the plot would somehow explore what results from that action. 
The genre would be more comedy than Heart, and explore things like Claudia's backstory and why she is a vegan, have a scene at Pate and Poblano's, and show initial flirtations of Stacey and Miguel.
Something that is still up in the air about Stacey a arc in both books is how her love life etc. truly works, as she is suggested to have feelings for Rose, yet is attracted to Miguel. A suggestion was that she is bisexual or is questioning her sexuality. The problem with this is that it dissipates the tension and the entire point of both books. An alternative way to look at it is that this issue is indeed the crux of Stacey's main problem--that she is trying to figure love out.
The book will also give a background for Stacey and Claudia's relationship, as they meet in this book, and presumably have a frenemy like relationship in Heart, in part because of their mutual attraction to Miguel.