Leah’s parents are gone for two weeks leaving Leah home alone while they do some antiquing. Her plans with Miguel get thwarted after she gets poison ivy, a sunburn and then something else happens.
Miguel, his mother and his sister just moved into Charlie’s old house. Charlie is carrying the loan for Miguel’s mother. He and Jesse found him a nursing home that he could be happy in and where he will be taken care of in his old age.
Jenna tries to plan Caitlin’s wedding as though it were her own. She doesn’t like the colors, styles and other choices Caitlin makes and thinks her own ideas are better. That her ideas are the only ones worth considering. She criticizes all Caitlin’s choices.
Ben has a girlfriend. He’s chagrined to discover that she has a job at the weight loss clinic his mother just started attending. He’s never wanted anyone to see his extremely overweight mother but now it might be unavoidable. He plots ways to see that that doesn’t happen.
Melanie is now taking art lessons and finds her young teacher quite attractive. She however, is 10 years his junior. And what about Jesse?
Sexual issues come up in this volume.