Surviving Southside

Carmen Mendoza, a proud lesbian, has found another note in her locker that threatens her and her lifestyle and looking for some help she tries to team up with Scott, who is not gay but who lost his best friend, Jamie, to suicide after Jaime decided to announce that he was gay.

Paige Robinson is thrilled when she starts dating Ty, the football team's star running back, but when Ty hits her out of anger and is arrested for assault, Paige realizes their relationship is not perfect and that if Ty really loved her he would not hurt her.

Cassie dreams of being a famous singer, and when she hears about auditions for a television show, she thinks she has found her chance, but when a talent agent approaches her at the auditions, Cassie is pulled into a dangerous world that could ruin her chance at fame.

Fish hates the way his ADHD medicine makes him feel, so he stops taking it, and when his crush needs a boost to study, he offers her one of the pills and soon finds himself in over his head when he becomes a supplier for other students.

Benito's father returns from Iraq a changed man, and when the pressure to deal with his father's post-traumatic stress disorder proves to be too much, Benito considers running away from his problems.

Lucy has her life mapped out, thinking she will join her boyfriend Luke at college, become a Spanish teacher, get married, and live happily ever after, but when Lucy learns she is pregnant, she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life.

After being wooed with meals, cheerleaders, and money by the recruiter from Teller College, Kadeem Jones must decide if he will help the NCAA investigation, even though it maybe the end of the good times and his chance to play college football.