Milan and Amanda break up.
Amanda gets caught up with a new friend who's into protesting but when she takes it too far, Amanda realizes she's losing Milan.
Busy gets involved in her own Romeo and Juliet situation when she meets a young man who runs a rival hot dog cart and learns their fathers have a past together.
Amanda and Busy prepare for graduation from 9th grade and into pending adulthood. Meanwhile, Amanda tries to reconnect with her father.
When Carla is killed in a car accident, Amanda and Busy try to come to terms with their own grief, including whether Amanda should continue Carla's role as Juliet in the play, ""Romeo and Juliet"".
Amanda and Busy both have important decisions to make when they learn that they can choose to apply to several high schools, which could mean they'd be going to different schools next year.
Busy decides between Ernie and Jonah
When Amanda's grades start to fail, her mom decides that her drama group must go and Amanda attempts to sneak around and still be in the play.
Busy, determined to make enough money to buy Stephen's keyboard, competes with Sag for a job at a record store.
When Amanda promises to spend a whole day babysitting Stephen's young daughter, Phoebe, she really would rather be at her drama group, and goes to extremes to do that instead, much to Phoebe's dismay.
When Busy rescues a fellow student from drowning, and gets her fifteen minutes of fame, she's appalled when she learns the girl staged the whole thing for the attention. Meanwhile, Amanda tries out for a youth drama company.
When Dom flunks out of college, it's up to Busy to help him come home and tell their parents the truth.