Romeo makes the varsity basketball team; Gary decides to have a garage sale to earn some money.
Romeo failed a algebra test and gets a chance to take a re-take the test the next day, but instead of studying he has friends over to watch a very anticipated basketball game while Percy is out of town. That leaves Percy's new girlfriend Angie to babysit, and she intends to make Romeo study. Gary pretends he is sick to distract Angeline from catching Romeo watching TV with his friends instead of studying. Jodi go's to a college fair to pick a good college but all her choices are turned down by Percy.
Romeo is now a freshman at highschool but his first impression on the school principal is not a good one. Romeo has been accused of paintballing the principal's house, even though he left before his friends actually did it. But if Romeo tells who really did it, they promise to make his life miserable. Louis is having problems of his own when he wants to be a writer on the school's newspaper, but the head editor is not very nice, and took Louis's piece on the cafeteria and re-wrote it. Louis gave up and decided to make his own ""Zine"" with the help of Myra.