Eric is Landon's best friend. He is the high school quarter back and everyone knows who he is. Eric is very popular and his girlfriend is Margaret, the head cheerleader. He always picks on Jamie because she is not popular at all and he teases Landon when they start hanging out and walking home together. When Jamie gets sick, Eric goes to her house and apologizes for everything. Everything he's ever said or done to her that hurt her feelings. He gives her a hug and burst into tears. Even though he apologized he felt guilty for teasing her.
Angela is Landon's girlfriend in the beginning. She soon becomes his ex because she leaves him for a 20 year old mechanic, Lew. When Angela and Lew show up at the dance drunk, Lew was about to fight Landon because he thought that he was looking at Angela. Then Jamie confuses him out of it. Angela gets sick and throws up all in the girls bathroom. When this happens Lew leaves and Jamie and Landon spend their night in the girls bathroom cleaning up puke so she wouldn't get caught. Then Landon takes her home.