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.

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.