Convinced, Miller allows the occasion to happen as lengthy as it ends by midnight, thus earning them Theta’s respect again. She steals the old exams from Theta and is caught by Nico, who as an alternative permits her to turn them in to the Honor Board to further help her case. Nico provides Kimberly a ton of outdated exams his frat home has been protecting to assist her pass. Kimberly begins seeing Nico recurrently for sex, conserving their affair a secret from Leighton but also causing her to skip her Econ lessons and show up late for work. Kimberly, Bela, Leighton and Whitney arrive back at Essex shortly after the Thanksgiving break. Whitney is jealous of Zoe, Canaan’s new coworker at Sips, but he guarantees that there is nothing occurring between them and apologizes for what he stated before about Whitney’s interests. Having came upon about their affair, Leighton threatens to tell Maya about Nico’s infidelity except he apologizes to Kimberly. Leighton hosts a shock occasion for Nico’s 21’st birthday and invites Maya, which upsets Kimberly when she finds out he stored this from her. Kimberly panics about her mom being unable to pay for the dinner resulting from their poor background and insists that Leighton pay for it, however the ruse is found.
Despite Canaan warning her towards it, she does cheat, utilizing her urinary tract infection as an excuse, but is finally caught by professor Bennett. Despite their anger, Bela’s mom is understanding of her daughter’s passion and guarantees that they may help her as long as she focuses more on her studies. Despite this, Whitney does inform the reality to her mother, who blames herself for being so strict to her that Whitney thought she had to cover things from her and the 2 reconcile. Senator Chase visits Whitney to be sure that the girl who was with Dalton is okay. Bela has a rough begin at her new female magazine as she is unimpressed with the applicants’ dull submissions and turns to Eric for advice, telling her to search out people who are funny like her. Eric kicks Ryan out of The Catullan for what he did to Bela and Carla, however Bela, Evangeline and Jo, having had sufficient of its toxic rape tradition when a rift varieties over Ryan’s dismissal, decide to stop and start their own journal.
Bela reports Ryan’s sexual assault on her and Carla to Evangeline and Eric; while Evangeline believes her, Eric callously criticizes her. However, when Dean Miller finds out, she makes an attempt to shut it down; Bela has Jackson use his tragic story as a local weather refugee, with Leighton adding that they’ve raised $11,000. Maya has broken up with Nico, whom Leighton berates for bringing this misfortune on himself. Finding out that Nico by no means talked to Kimberly, Leighton tells Maya that Nico cheated on her, however without giving her away. Carol tells Kimberly not to be ashamed of who she is. Ira tries to revive the enterprise by providing a automobile to the person who keeps a hand on it the longest. Perhaps more interesting is the Nintendo Wii, a video sport whose controller is designed to let your onscreen avatar mirror your actual-world actions – at least to the extent of following the motion of your hand. With completely nothing to lose, and their classmates pondering they’re a couple of juvie-educated ruffians anyway, Josie and PJ start a struggle membership to show girls self-protection ways because the folks from rival Huntington High are certain to get violent resulting in the upcoming homecoming soccer game.
But this comes at a high social and time cost. After initially taking a low profile, she decides to come back clear to Coach Woods, who does not rat her out, but at the cost of her and Dalton shedding their jobs. However, Leighton’s refusal to return out of the closet ends in Alicia breaking up with her. After the dinner, Whitney thanks her mom for defending her father, however she acknowledges that Leighton’s mother and father have been right about him and tells Whitney that one day she will have to drop her hero worship of him. Kimberly, attempting to compensate her misplaced scholarship, requests a mortgage at the mortgage office with Leighton’s assist, but since she hasn’t informed her mother and father concerning the scholarship, she turns it down after she is told that they need to co-sign. Bela is caught by her parents lying about taking neuroscience programs so as to grow to be a physician and are disappointed when she tells them that she needs to be a comedy author.