Focuses around Thomas and his coming to terms with life and love in England.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.