Request #649 From Cat

I have been looking for this book for so many years I’m starting to believe I made it up, lol. So the following is what I remember:

It had to be published before or around1990 and I would have read it at about the same time, but I definitely read it before 1994/1995 (the time I moved after a house fire and lost track of it.) It was a part of a three pack of books sold in Kmart or some other store, but not a bookstore,  and included in the package were Light a Single Candle- by Beverly Butler and The Legend of Daisy Flowerdew- By Patricia Pendergraft (but it is not by either of these authors as far as I have been able to find). I believe the first line is something along the lines of “the first thing I noticed were his eyes…” and it was in the first-person perspective of a teen girl. She was talking about the new boy in class, who was a French exchange student, I believe,  that drove an MG or other convertible car. I also think his last name was Rocher or Rochet. Anyway, the plot follows this girl and boy’s relationship until he tragically dies in a car crash and then about how she deals with his death. It was a kind of sad coming of age story, which is why I think it was packaged with those other two. I hope you can help me solve this mystery!