Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) who is torn between two boys at her high school: prickly academic Ben (Jaren Lewison) and popular jock Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Barnet). “It’s fun getting into the mind of a character like that because he’s the guy that everyone wanted to be in high school,” said Barnet. “He’s kind of the opposite of what I was like in high school.