Amerie checks on Malakai and finds out he hasn’t been answering his phone all weekend. She’s worried after what happened to him and he invites her on a date. Amerie hopes they can have a meaningful conversation during the date. ..
Hartley High is hosting its Inter School Basketball Semifinals this week and in order to promote a litter-picking initiative, the school has promised to give a $50 PlayStation gift voucher to the student who picks up the most bags of trash. Quinn is determined to win the voucher and Sasha offers to help her but in the end, another student wins. ..
In the SLTs, students are discussing porn and how it gives unrealistic ideas about sex. Spider as always is being a douchebag but the rest of the students delve into the topic. Sasha opens up that she learned through porn that she is attracted to girls. They agree that porn helps them know what they want and what they like/desire. Teacher Jojo asks them to anonymously write the things they desire in their lives and put them in a box in the classroom. They will discuss them in their next class and normalize expressing their wants and desires in a healthy manner. ..
Darren and Ca$h don’t gel and Sasha and Quinn take the lead to make things right. The date doesn’t go as hot as Darren had imagined it would. They end up using Sasha’s and Quinn’s help to send the hottest nudes to Ca$h.
Cash is new to sending or receiving nudes and he makes an adorable attempt to send one back. They end up spending a night together but they don’t have sex. Darren thinks Cash is not attracted to him sexually as he keeps turning down their advances. They end up fighting again with Cash and storming out. ..
On their date, Malakai and Amerie have a good time but Malakai is not ready to talk about the racial profiling he suffered. Amerie notices he is a good dancer and asks him why he is not pursuing it. Malakai says he already has basketball even though he doesn’t like it, he is good at it. The conversation turns to the question he asked at the party. He never got an answer as to whether Amerie will be his girlfriend or not. They had a break-up without even being officially in a relationship! After their talk, they officially start dating. It would be a celebratory moment if we didn’t know that Malakai messed it all up when he had a threesome with Harper and Dusty. Sigh!
The trio’s simmering tension has come to a head, and it’s clear that they’re not going to be able to get along without each other. Can they work together to overcome their differences or will their simmering anger and resentment lead them down a path of destruction?
In their next class, the students read out some of the wants they wrote and someone had the grand idea to write about the threesome. Obviously, Amerie is angry but she handles it with as much grace as she possibly can. Give her a break! At this point, it is like she has given up on Harper and she tells her, “ I am only just realizing I have no idea who you are.”
“Dusty told Harper that he was hurt because she wanted Malakai too much,” Sasha and Missy said. “It didn’t dull his interest in her, and he needed space.” Harper tried to make excuses, but they were not here for it.
Amerie and Malakai talk and they decide to break up after only dating for 12 hours. Amerie is more hurt by the fact that it was Harper he slept with. She says she just can’t get past that. Even though she is hurt, she knows that Malakai is still struggling from his assault and he is not okay. She offers to be there for him as a friend.
The Inter School Basketball semi-finals day is quickly approaching and Malakai quits the team after a fight with Spider. However, that’s not the most dramatic thing that happens at the game. Harper “took a minute” to dump Dusty publicly in the most embarrassing way possible. I wonder how the principal will deal with this situation. ..
The Episode Review
This episode served us a lot of drama. It was maddening to see how Dusty reacted after the consensual threesome but Harper took her power back in her rant at the game. Was what she did at the game right? I believe there was a better way to deal with Dusty other than emasculating him in public.
Malakai is dealing with a lot of pressure and it overwhelmed him. He needs to talk to someone about what he is going through. Amerie handled the break-up well, she was considerate of him till the end.
Darren and Cash need to figure out a way to compromise with one another. Maybe they can find a common ground. What do you think, should Darren give Cash more time to deal with whatever the issue is? ..
