Five high school kids—Miranda, Eric, Kat, Brent, and Gabe—experience difficult relationships and demanding friendships, which they attempt to resolve through the high school radio talk show.

Kat McDonough has a problem. His name is Brent Tucker. Even after she caught him kissing another girl at the Turnaround Formal, Kat still finds Brent irresistible. And things keep getting more and more complicated. First Brent showers her with flowers. Then Kat's friend Gabe threatens to cancel their super-successful KHOT radio program. Kat's best friend, Miranda, may have her doubts about Brent, but she's sure about one thing. She's in love with Jackson, so much in love that she dropped Eric, her football-player boyfriend, in the process. Meanwhile Chip has invited outcast Leanne to Jojo's party of the year. And Eric is bringing a surprise date of his own.

Convinced that, deep down, "social misfit" Leanne Heard is a nice person, Chip Kohler asks her out, hoping to bring out her hidden good side.

When a fire destroys the school radio station, KHOT disc jockey Gabe Sachs is heartbroken, a feeling that is compounded when his hot-and-cold girlfriend, Kat, goes out on a date with another guy.

Rejected by Kat, Brent Tucker sets out to destroy her relationship with Gabe, while Miranda tries to prove to her friends that she is not a wimp, and Chip gives Leanne an ultimatum about sex