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- The day of the A-levels results coincides with Chris' funeral. Barred by Chris' father from attending, Sid and Tony 'borrow' the coffin to pay their own respects, returning it in time for Jal to make a moving oration. After the funeral, the group shares their results and each tries to decide his/her future path.
- It's Anwar's birthday, but he's still not talking to best friend Maxxie. Sid thinks he might have been an idiot with regards to Cassie. Cassie escapes from the institution. Angie and Chris get an unexpected visit that might swing both ways. Tony and Michelle are still not speaking to each other. Effy's still not speaking to anyone, but she's there to point that out to Tony and support Michelle. Everything comes to a head during Anwar's birthday celebration at Seymour's.
- While Cassie helps her friend and flatmate Chris during his recovery and goes to her final exam, Sid throws a dinner party to celebrate the end of exams, with Cassie, Chris, Michelle and Tony in attendance. Tensions transpire regarding Jal's pregnancy.
- A visit from Sid's grandfather causes chaos for both him and his dad. His overbearing grandfather is still under the impression that Sid's parents are still together, a pretense Sid's dad is all too eager to maintain. The stresses and strains of the visit soon mount up and eventually something has to give.
- JJ visits his psychiatrist after feeling 'lost and confused' about his life and friends. He is given lots of medical drugs to calm his Aspergers. He finds that Emily goes to the same clinic as him and they spend some time together; Emily calms JJ down,admits to him that she is a lesbian, and offers advice to help him sort out his numerous issues. JJ and Emily then visit Freddie and walk in on him having sex with Katie. During the confrontation, JJ accidentally informs Katie that Emily is a lesbian. Later, JJ visits Effy and asks her to stop interfering in his friendship with Freddie and Cook. JJ then visits Cook and discovers that he is also having casual sex with Pandora. Later, the group goes to a You Love Her Coz She's Dead gig, where Cook is beaten up after getting into a fight with some ravers. Before the chaos Effy and Naomi have a heart-to heart-outside, where Effy reveals that she knows about her and Emily. Naomi is hit by a wave of relief when Effy states that she does not mind if she is gay or not. Cook has taken JJ's Stun pills; they calm him and also make him tell the truth. Cook reveals that Effy loves Freddie back, but she cannot admit it and does not want a serious relationship. He bizarrely even admits to being genuinely hurt by this as he loves Effy too before admitting to having sex with Pandora, which Thomas overhears. JJ invites an upset Emily back to his house for the night, so she does not have to go home and face Katie. The next morning they sleep together; Emily tells JJ it is a "one-time charity event."
- Chris receives some startling news that forces him to look at his future more closely. Of course this is Chris, so he won't be able to do this on his own. Jal tries a different attitude to life which leads to unexpected happiness; unfortunately, Cassie, still reeling from her heartbreaking discovery, decides to cast her own dark cloud on Jal's new joy.
- Effy, now the lady of the house due to her mother's depression, befriends new naive classmate Pandora, whom she introduce to selling cannabis. She also has a clever plot to help Sid, in exchange for Sid doing her art coursework for school. She also helps her brother.
- If the world wasn't strange enough, this episode perceives the world through the eyes of Cassie. A world in which you receive messages through your food. A world in which the guy you are interested in only has eyes for your best friend, who only has eyes for his best friend. And a world in which the only person you can talk to is your taxi driver. Welcome to the calm in storm of the surreal.
- Effy is unhappy when she sees that everybody seems to find Katie more popular than herself, even Freddie. Katie is even more popular when she invites everybody to a party - except Cook, who gate-crashes it anyway. At the party Effy gets back her status as the focus of attention when she brings some magic mushrooms, but she ends up taking a bad trip and fighting with Katie, whom she puts into hospital. She tries to visit her but is rejected and wakes up in a stolen car driven by Cook.
- Cook is remanded in custody following the GBH charge but later released, with an electronic tag, to live with his alcoholic mother Ruth and adoring younger brother Paddy. He's also expelled from college for the assault. Appalled to learn that Ruth had sex with Freddie, he steals her car along with Paddy and trashes it. Then, becoming alarmed that Paddy might turn out like him, he admits to selling Sophia the drugs, takes the rap for Naomi, and gets sent down.
- Things are not going well for Katie. Following a pregnancy scare she learns that she is infertile and loses her job as a wedding planner when she gets drunk and aggressive at her client's hen night. To cap it all her father's recklessness has rendered the family bankrupt and they move in temporarily with Emily and Naomi, creating stress all round. Emily and Naomi fight at a barbecue, causing Naomi to admit that it was she and not Cook who supplied Sophia with drugs. The two girls do make up whilst Thomas, learning of Katie's situation, comforts her.
- Sid is in trouble. Deep trouble. He's failing at everything. His history coursework hasn't made the grade and he's only got a week to deliver something decent or he'll fail the year. And, of course, he's as sexually frustrated as ever and can't get his best friend's girlfriend Michelle out of his head. Will Sid ever buckle down and focus on his future, will his dad ever give him a break, and will he ever wake up to Tony's manipulative ways?
- Pandora throws a birthday party, but her strict mother Angela forbids the use of alcohol so Katie makes some cakes laced with ecstasy; unfortunately, Angela eats one and passes out. This leads to a row between Pandora and Effy, and Effy ends up having sex with Cook again. The next day, it's Pandora's turn to enjoy Cook's sexuality, but Effy cottons on to what has happened, while Emily is observed kissing Lesbian Naomi.
- Since Katie won't leave the house, Emily impersonates her to take her exam and meets Naomi, who tells her that she is going to Cyprus for the summer but declines Emily's invitation to accompany her to the end-of-term ball, though she does turn up on her own. At the ball, the sisters fight when Katie learns that Emily went with JJ, but Emily resists the temptation to hit her sister, instead declaring her love for Naomi and walking off with her. Pandora and Thomas are also able to get it together.
- The sixth-form history class go to Russia on a study trip, where their bus breaks down and their drug-smuggling exploit goes awry. Anwar disapproves of Maxxie's homosexuality, but comes to respect him. After a stand-off and police intervention, teacher Tom is forced to pay money to placate the locals--which turns out to be a scam to fleece naive visitors.
- Six months have elapsed and Cassie has moved to Scotland, leaving Sid upset. Tony is still having mood swings and blackouts following his accident and, since his mother is suffering from depression, Effy takes over the reins of the household. Maxxie is having problems with local homophobes and his father's refusal to let him become a dancer but agrees to help Tony.
- Yet another man in her mother's life mean upheaval in Michelle's life: a new house and a new stepsister to cope with and no idea which she dislikes more, and a shredded life with no comforting normality. With her birthday rapidly approaching, she seeks solace from the chaos in the company of her friends--with one noticeable exception. But as most her friends become more of an annoyance than a relief, she turns to a reliable source of comfort to steer her through the storm. But what trouble will this new direction bring?
- Jal learns that she is pregnant by Chris, whom her parents want her to dump so she can concentrate on her schoolwork. When they find out that she's pregnant, both advocate a termination, but when, on Cassie's advice, Jal goes to tell Chris about her condition, she discovers that he has been rushed to hospital with a blood clot on the brain.
- Happy-go-lucky party animal Chris wakes up one morning with a hangover and an erection. Nothing unusual there. Until he discovers a grand in cash and a note from his mum saying she's gone away. So, like any not-so-average pill-popping 17-year-old, Chris embarks on a bender to end all benders. But what do you do after you've thrown the mother of all parties and blown all the money? Well, you sell everything that isn't nailed down and go again--and just hope that everything else will start to make sense. But sometimes, life can make a little more sense than you want it to, and Chris must face the fact that his mum might never be coming home.
- The affair between Naomi and Emily intensifies. Cook is running for student president and challenges Naomi to sleep with him if he wins. He does win, but they get no further than kissing. Meanwhile, Freddie tells Naomi that he has fallen out with Cook and loves Effy. Naomi resists the advances of her teacher Kieran to have sex with Emily again, then finds Kieran in bed with her mother. She ends up holding hands with Emily through a catflap.
- Emily confronts Naomi over her supplying Sophia with drugs. Emily has learned that Sophia was gay and her locker is a shrine to Naomi, who denies any sexual relationship with Sophia. Emily and Naomi then move in together, but at a party where Cook assaults another guest for no apparent reason, Emily gets Sophia's brother to open a box that contains Sophia's hand-drawn account of her affair with Naomi, who rejected her for Emily, hence her subsequent drastic actions.
- Blaming the gang for what happened to Grace, her father, Professor Blood, bans her boyfriend Rich from seeing her in hospital, but he manages to sneak in and discover that she has awakened but is being moved to a hospital in Zurich. After the Bloods have left for Switzerland, Rich moves into their house and, to the near detriment of his friendship with Alo, becomes obsessive,sleeping in Grace's bed and watching her old home-movies. However, when Professor Blood comes home he tells Rich that Grace died in hospital in Zurich without recovering--Rich's recent conversation with her was only a fantasy.
- Cook is now living with sometime-girlfriend Emma in Manchester and drug-running for gangster Louie along with Louie's henchmen Jason and Rob. He is extremely secretive about his past. Louie entrusts him with driving his girlfriend Charlie as she is house-hunting, though Cook is surprised when she asks to be dropped off at a council estate. At a party Cook intervenes when Jason tries to have rough sex with an unwilling Charlie and gets beaten up for his pains. Emma cleans him up but he advises Charlie to be wary of Louie and finally admits to her that he has killed a man. They end up having sex. At the house-warming party, Louie reveals that he knows that Charlie has been unfaithful and drowns Jason in the swimming pool. Cook tells Emma he thinks that they should leave Manchester, but as they are driving away he gets a call for help from Charlie and, against Emma's advice, heads back to her.
- Effy spends some time in a psychiatric hospital and is discharged under the care of psychotherapist John Foster, but her friends are concerned about Foster's influence over her, isolating her from the rest of them. After she freaks out at the scene of Tony's accident, she returns to hospital, where Freddie visits her and encounters Foster, whom he warns to stay away from her. Foster invites Freddie to his house to talk about Effy.
- Mini is rushed to hospital but the baby is saved. As the exam results come through and Alex gets ready to spend his gap year in Thailand, Matty apologises to Rich for causing Grace's death. Franky heads for Birmingham to seek out her mother but is told that she is dead by her sister Clara, who returns her to Bristol. At Alex's farewell party Liv makes up with the other girls and Grace appears to Rich for one last kiss. Clara tells Franky that their mother is actually in a psychiatric hospital and takes her to visit. Nick accompanies Matty to the police station to give himself up and Mini has her baby, with Alo offering to support her. Hearing the baby cry Rich turns to the camera to say goodbye to the viewers.
- Tony is a super-confident 17-year-old smart-ass with a good-looking girl on his arm and the ability to charm most of the other females her encounters. He launches a scheme to help his friend Sid lose his virginity before his birthday while making a little profit on the side, but his plan quickly unravels, leaving the friends with a dilemma that requires an urgent solution.
- Freddie's sister Karen is entering the Next SexBomb contest but he disapproves of her trying to win the sympathy vote because their mother is dead. JJ tells him Cook wants to see him but he is tired of doing what Cook wants and goes to see Effy to reveal his feelings though she rejects him. Despite having turned their shed into a dance studio, Karen loses the contest, thanks to Cook persuading the local pub customers to vote against her. Freddie decides he will definitely explain to Effy how he feels about her but finds she is with Cook.
- JJ falls for Lara, who works in the sweet shop with him, but when he visits her flat, he discovers that she is a single parent with a baby, Albert. JJ's family disapproves of Lara as being a tart, and Emily tells him she thinks Lara is using him to get back at her violent ex-boyfriend Liam. JJ gets into a fight with Liam, who tells him that he loves his child and gives JJ his blessing if he will care for Lara. JJ gets back together with Lara and serenades her on the ukulele.
- Cook, Charlie and Emma are on the run. They take refuge in Emma's parent's house in the middle of nowhere. Things start to get worse as Louie finds them.
- Furious with Tony after his numerous infidelities, Michelle ends their relationship and begins an affair with the son of Cassie's doctor. Desperate to get back with Michelle, Tony uses explicit photographs of the guy's sister to drive a wedge between the two lovers.
- Maxxie has a creepy feeling that someone is watching him. Someone close by. A hot boy maybe? No such luck. Sketch is Maxxie's stalker, a weird loner who spends most days shut up in a poky flat looking after her disabled mum, so her attention turns to the blond boy who lives on the estate. Soon everything in her life is about Maxxie--if only he would even notice her. Meanwhile, the sixth-form college production of 'Osama: The Musical' is teetering towards disaster under the heavy-handed guidance of lecherous drama teacher Bruce. But Sketch is prepared to do anything to get leading man Maxxie, and if she can't have him, she will make sure that nobody can--especially not his current leading lady Michelle.
- Thomas arrives in Bristol from the Congo with his parents to follow him, but after sleeping in an empty flat he falls foul of its owner, John White, who demands money. Pandora takes a liking to him and helps him by giving him dope to sell, but unfortunately they find they are selling it on White's turf. White threatens Cook again, but Thomas steps in to champion him and defeats White in a chili-eating contest. However, when Thomas's mother turns up, she is appalled and demands he return to Africa.
- As Emily, Naomi, Pandora, and Thomas make up, the gang become concerned for the absent Freddie and hold his birthday party in his absence. Cook, who has read Freddie's notebook which mention's Foster's obsession with Effy, follows the psychiatric worker home and breaks into his basement, where he discovers a bag containing Freddie's blood-stained clothes. Foster comes in and attacks him but ,with a cry of "I'm Cook" the youngster hits him back with the baseball bat and avenges his friend's death.
- Effy and Freddie are living together but Freddie is troubled by Effy's morbid outlook and her obsession with death. He visits his grandfather Norman in his residential home and the old man tells Freddie that he believes Effy should have psychiatric treatment. Effy then locks herself in a bathroom and attempts suicide, but is taken to hospital and survives. Freddie visits but she rebuffs him, but Cook, who has apparently escaped from custody, turns up and advises him to persevere.
- It's Rich and Grace's wedding day and the fractured gang tries to make it a happy day but they're at one another's throats. When the van breaks down on the way to the church, the gang splits up. Everyone must go through his or her own test to get to the church on time. Grace and Rich question if marriage is really for them. Alo picks up the pieces when Nick wonders how he became such a stoned loser. Liv and Mini both lose the people they have put their trust in when Matty and Franky choose each other. And Franky finally gives in to her desires for Matty, but the normality of sexual relationships is not for her. The gang works through their problems and comes together as close friends whom nothing will ever tear apart.
- Sharing a flat with would-be stand up comic Naomi, Effy is now the office junior at the hedge-fund department of Hewitt Maurice asset management fund. To avoid a friend getting into trouble, Effy stands in for her boss Victoria and takes it upon herself to deal with valued client Max Stibbard, who is impressed. As a result Jake, the head of the firm, gives Effy the chance to be a dealer and, helped by lovelorn Dominic from the research department, pulls off an impressively-lucrative deal. Effy is now mixing with high-flying financiers and Naomi is appalled at her friend's shallow behaviour, especially as Naomi admits to having cancer. But Effy is on a roll and embarks upon an affair with Jake. At the same time it is noticed that market returns are not matching the firm's returns.
- Naomi tries to recover from cancer without Emily knowing. Effy is sleeping with her boss and tries to get Dom's help to pull Jake's company out of a slump.
- A new batch of students arrive at Roundview College, friends Freddie, Cook and JJ all falling for Effy's charms. Two identical twin sisters, Emily and the dominant Katie also arrive. Effy sets the three boys a dare with herself as the prize for the winner, which results in her having sex with Cook in the college nurse's office.
- Mini, Grace, Franky, Liv, Alo, Rich, Matty, and Nick are on holiday in Morocco--in a crumbling villa with no roof, water, or electricity. While Mini gets together with Alo (demanding that he tells nobody), Franky tells Matty that she wants to end their relationship and she's easily attracted to suave Luke, whose party they crash. She agrees to go off with him, but Liv learns from a local boy that Luke is a notorious drug dealer and has planted 6 kilos of dope in the group's truck. Liv,Grace, and Matty pursue the fleeing couple, but the van crashes. Back at the college Grace is in a coma in hospital while Matty has run away in Morocco.
- Angry at Alo for declaring his love for her and at her mother Shelley for moving her tubby, sex-mad boyfriend Eric into the house, Mini also discovers that she is pregnant and contacts her high-flying but absent father Gregory, staying in his riverside apartment and contemplating going to Australia with him although people tell her he'll let her down. Her college friends gate-crash Gregory's party and Alo gets thrown out after accusing Gregory's assistant Ryan of having sex with Mini. She confides her situation in Franky, who advises her to tell Gregory but, never one for responsibility, he leaves for Australia without her, leaving her a cheque for 500 pounds. Alo also rejects her, calling her too callous to be capable of love, but unexpected consolation comes from Eric, who reconciles her with Shelley, after which Franky takes her to an ultrasound clinic, where she weeps tears of joy on seeing her unborn baby.
- Tired of Mini's inconsistent attitude and unaware of her pregnancy, Alo quickly falls for vivacious Poppy, whom he meets at a fancy-dress party; they have consensual sex in her house and escape being caught by her argumentative parents. But Alo is shocked to find that Poppy is only 13 and soon he's arrested for assaulting a minor, suspended from college, and ostracized by his former friends. AT least it brings him closer to Mini and they have a heart-to-heart. She is about to tell him that she is pregnant when Poppy rings to say that she and her mother have persuaded her father to drop the charges against him.
- Effy and Cook go into hiding with his father, but Effy contacts Freddie, who turns up with JJ, though it is Freddie with whom Effy ends up sleeping. Cook asks his father if he can leave the country with him on his boat but Cook, Sr. threatens him and must be restrained. Eventually Effy and the boys take the boat back up the river after Cook pushes his father overboard. But despite Effy's evident feelings for Freddie, who ends up with whom is inconclusive.
- Time to get to know the girl behind the clarinet. The rest of her family distinguish themselves by spitting out rhymes to booming bass beats, but Jal seeks solace from the chaos of life in the classical tunes that flow over her single reed. Although she seems to be trying to keep a considerable distance from the adolescent conundrum that 21st-century teens have created around her, it is not long before she is sucked into the whirlwind of her surroundings. Can the resulting destruction create something better?
- Mini is under threat. When Grace brings Franky into the Charity Fashion Show, Mini sacks them both and re-imagines the show in her own image to cement her power. Despite appearances, her relationship is also rocky; Nick can't wait forever for sex. As Mini struggles to maintain control, Liv acts out in the worst way possible: giving Nick what Mini failed to. Mini discovers but pretends it hasn't happened. Mini loses her virginity at the wrong time, with the wrong person, and for all the wrong reasons.
- Grace has always believed in fairytales and happy endings, but is forced to face reality. When Rich accidentally learns that David F-ing Blood is her father, Grace has some explaining to do. Blood disapproves of Rich and threatens to send her back to Mayberry's College for Young Ladies if her grades drop. Grace must pass her drama exam, but with her relationship in turmoil and the whole gang at odds in her production of Twelfth Night, it's not looking likely. Grace manages to pull it off, but Blood goes back on his word and sends her to Mayberry's anyway. Rich rescues her, climbing up to her room and proposing--her real-life Romeo.
- Mini collapses and is rushed to hospital. Both Nick and Matty show up and start fighting, but Franky refuses to call the police to have Matty arrested. With Alo making it clear he does not want a baby and Shelley trying to persuade her to give the child up for adoption a pressurised Mini runs off, staying the night at a squat with Franky, who tries to talk her into moving to Oxford. However, Eric persuades her to go home where, after a heart-to-heart, Shelley accepts that she should keep her baby. Franky, who has overheard, is angry and tearful and rushes out of the house. Later, Mini and Alo are kissing at Alo's farm when she sees blood trickling down her leg.
- Rich uses his taste in extreme music to keep the world, especially girls, at bay. When Alo finds Rich's perfect woman, Rich is forced to into pairing up with Grace to learn how to chat up girls. But first she must learn the ways of metal to impersonate a practise metal chick. Rich continually pushes Grace away, refusing to believe a mainstream girl could understand him. He loses his hearing and learns about compromise. Rich allows Grace into his world, but has his heart broken when she puts Mini and Liv first.
- Alex, a boy who lives with and cares for his eccentric grandmother Miriam in his father's absence, lives by responding to the roll of a die, which is how he decides to punch Alo. But he intrigues Liv, who joins him in his die-rolling activities after meeting Miriam, who likes her. The others are less impressed, especially Mini, who accuses Liv of spending too much time with Alex. After Grace's emotional funeral, Alex comforts Liv, but she's newly upset when he says he's gay and uninterested in her as a girlfriend. Reconciliation of a sort comes when Alex gathers everybody together on a boat he has hired to give Miriam, who has just died and was a sailor's widow, a burial at sea.
- Seeing Alex as her only close friend, Liv is upset when he goes away for a weekend; to make things worse, she feels a pain in her side and sees a lump, but she confides only in Principal Doug, who tells her he's leaving the college. Rich is too busy revising and attempts to get through to Franky, whom Liv still blames for Grace's death, and Mini comes to nothing. When Matty returns from Morocco, Liv takes him to see Franky but she has no desire to speak to him and another confrontation with Mini leads to a fight and Mini crying out that she is pregnant. A shocked Liv once more feels the pain in her side but a visit to the doctor proves that there is no lump: it was a psychosomatic reaction to Grace's death. Feeling better, Liv visits Grace's grave with her younger sister Maude, Doug, and Rich, and they end up dancing.
- Cassie is working in a seedy diner in London and regularly phoning her father Marcus, who is going senile. She lives in a noisy house where she keeps to herself but befriends another tenant, Maddie, a would-be actress who seems to have a lot of gentleman callers. She has meaningless sex with co-worker Yaniv but is shocked to discover that somebody has been secretly filming her and posting the photos online under the name Oblivion. Hearing that Marcus has had an accident, Cassie decides to quit her job but before she can, another work colleague, Jakob, admits to taking the photos because he idolizes her with a pure, asexual love. She responds by hitting him.
- Hoping for a night of wild abandon, Cook invites everybody to his birthday party at his uncle's pub but the party collapses after Effy's friend Pandora throws up. Cook manages to persuade everyone to gate-crash a party being thrown to celebrate the engagement of a girl called Kayleigh, but he falls foul of her father John White, a drugs baron to Madame Greta's brothel; he again encounters John White and a fight ensues and White threatens to kill Cook if he sees him again.
- Loner Franky starts at Roundview and accidentally challenges Mini's position as Queen Bee. Mini plays the long game and Franky finds herself befriended by the girls, but when she won't conform to what Mini expects of her, she is spat out. Franky meets Matty, who understands and empowers her. Franky stands up to Mini, which inspires Grace to join her. A new gang is formed: Franky, Alo, Rich, and Grace. Franky has finally found friends, but in doing so has started a war with Mini.
- Alo has always lived on Creevey Farm, but lately the sins of the city call to him. Alo's out partying, getting fucked in his continuous attempts to get laid. But his parents, fed up with having a useless son, take him out of college and get him to buckle down on the farm. Alo rebels and has a party that ruins the farm, hoping this will show his parents that they can't keep him trapped there. When his dad is hospitalised, the most irresponsible boy on earth realises it's finally time to grow up.
- Cassie goes to Wales to see her family, accompanied by Jake. As things go along, Cassie is no longer Jake's mysterious model.
- Nick gets a Skype message from Matty in Morocco, telling him to go to a seedy club and ask for 'The Doctor,' a sinister Russian who will smuggle him back to England on a fake German passport for 2,000 pounds. Encountering hostility from his peers who blame Matty for Grace's death, Nick steals the money from his father's bank account but the Doctor cheats him and beats him up. Although she has accused him of being always in his brother's shadow and seen him kissing others, Franky offers a thousand pounds which she says is 'an inheritance' but Nick declares the deal off. However, the pair finally admit to their mutual feelings for each other and have sex; while Nick is in the bathroom afterwards, Franky sees a Skype message from Matty but switches the computer off without answering.
- Liv continues to sleep with Nick, unsure why. Mini befriends the gang to isolate Liv. Liv takes off. She meets a boy called Matty, and they take a day off from reality with no consequences or commitments. When they break the law they decide to run away together. Matty has a secret: he's Nick's estranged brother. After rejecting him, Liv acknowledges her need for a real relationship and takes a chance on a boy no-one believes in. Liv admits her affair with Nick to Mini, but Mini isn't ready to forgive. Matty and Nick are reunited, but Mini and Liv's friendship has changed forever.
- Nick is the school star: he's hot, he's the son of a proud father, he's a rugby hero, and he's got the perfect arm-candy in Mini. But Matty's reappearance has unsettled him. As he watches his brother slip effortlessly into new friendships, old wounds are re-opened and Nick's game suffers. He realizes that everything he thought he wanted--rugby success, his father's approval--is crushing him. He leaves it all behind and puts his faith in Matty.
- Conscious that she indirectly caused Grace's death and unable to concentrate on her mock exams, Franky feels alienated from her friends and smothered by her well-intentioned gay dads, so when drug-pusher Luke reappears, she finds herself drawn to his violent lifestyle; some of it even rubs off on her at home. Counseling is no help, and when Nick tries to intervene when Luke starts another fight and ends up getting hurt, Frank almost relishes it. But after snorting cocaine before enforced sex with Luke, she realizes what a brute he is and is ultimately reconciled with her dads and Nick.