While babysitting Amanda and Busy spy a sex book and their curiousity gets the best of them when they decide to look at it. So as not to get caught reading it, Amanda takes it home with her and has no idea what to do with it. She takes it to school with her for safekeeping with a plan to return it later but accidently loses it. Turns out Monkey Ears has taken it and is selling photocopies of the graphic pictures. When he is caught he fingers Amanda as the owner of the book and she gets in trouble too. This leads to a very in depth conversation with her mother about sex. Meanwhile, Busy questions her brothers about sex with interesting results.

Troy Edwards has a crush on Busy, and sends her a poem to express how he feels about her. Soon, Troy plucks up the courage to ask Busy out.While Troy prepares for the date by trying to shave, Busy allows Amanda to give her a facial and manicure. Unfortunately, neither Troy's or Busy's preparations go to plan. Having listened to brother Dom's advice, Busy dresses for the date in a more feminine style unaccustomed to her usual tom-boy image. Dressed in a short skirt and pink tights, Busy finds it both uncomfortable and difficult to compete with Troy at bowling. Half way through their game, Busy goes to the toilet to change back into her normal, more comfortable clothes. When she returns, Busy starts to relax, and finds herself beating Troy at bowling. Unable to cope with a girl beating him, Troy's male ego is beaten, and drifts into a mood. Later, Troy apologises to Busy.

Busy's family seek advice.

Amanda's father losses his job. Amanda decides that if she doesn't want to get teased at school by Chrissy anymore she needs to get the ""cool"" clothes. But they cost alot of money. Amanda decides to get a job.

Busy & Amanda win concert tickets.

Busy plays basketball with the ""guys.""

Amanda and her mom move out.

Amanda meets Danny Masters.

When Busy's boyfriend Troy tries to be more than just her good friend, Busy realizes that she wants to break up with him. Amanda tries to deal with the fact that her boyfriend Danny is going home to live with his mom in New York City. Busy's brother Manny breaks the news of his new live-in girlfriend Sheila to the family.

Amanda is very upset when her mother starts dating again and attempts to ruin her love life. After her mother catches on to her, Amanda is forced to deal with the fact that her parents are not getting back together and that they're moving on with their lives.

Amanda struggles with popularity when she must tutor Krissy the most popular girl in school but soon learns that being popular doesn't really mean anything because everyone has their own problems.

Amanda worries that her natural curiousity really means she's perverted, after she deliberately spies on Busy's brother Dominick in the shower. Busy is on a mission to determine whether it was really Dom that she heard on the sex radio show confessing to his girlfriend's sexual fetish of sunglasses.