Rae is enjoying a great summer with her friends and is feeling like she is invincible. She's still madly in love with Finn, but her insecurities could ruin their relationship before it's even really started.

The long hot summer is over and Rae is starting her first year at Sixth Form College. She's determined that things will be different this year, but she quickly starts to struggle under the pressure.

After having ended things with Finn, Rae is feeling lonely in college and finding it hard to make friends. With the chance to be a part of the cool gang, she needs to decide how far she'll go to fit in.

Meanwhile, Rae is infuriated with Archie being firmly back in the closet - can she really be friends with someone like him?.

When Rae begins to grow closer to Liam, his new girlfriend, Amy, starts to feel suspicious and threatens Rae. Meanwhile, Archie is finding it hard to cope after Rae outed him to Lois.

Rae wants to be treated like an adult as she pushes the boundaries with her parents. After she begins to spend quite a bit of time with a group of older boys that Chloe has befriended, things turn nasty and Rae thinks about whether adulthood is really everything that it is supposed up to be.

Rae is livid as it looks likely Chloe is going to let her down once again, but a discovery forces her to see things through Chloe's eyes for once. Rae begins to realise that there are two sides to every story and hopes that it is not too late to sort things out.

It is a very dark period of Rae's life without her friends and mum being around for support. She's managed to alienate everybody and now a crisis with Chloe leaves her feeling helpless.