Adam Groff/History

This page chronicles the **history of Adam Groff**, a major character in *Sex Education*.

## Background

Adam Groff is the second child of Maureen and Michael Groff, after his older sister. With his family, and a cavapoo dog called Madam, he lives in a house in Moordale.

Adam grew up under the strict rules of his father, whom he was afraid of, and with time, he started to hate him. Especially, that he was often compared to his older sister, who according to Michael is "more diligent, reliable, and resilient" than Adam.

By the time Adam started attending Moordale Seconary School, where his father was a headteacher. There, he started bullying other students, especially Eric Effiong, which was helping him to minimize the pain he was struggling with after his father was bullying him at home.

Even though he was a horrible person, he was able to befriend Kyle and develop a romantic relationship with one of the most popular students at school, a member of the Untouchables clique, Aimee Gibbs.

## Season One

### Episode 1

Adam and Aimee are having sex in Adam's room. While Aimee orgasmed, Adam couldn't ejaculate, making Aimee frustrated.

One day, in a school corridor, Adam attacks Eric, taking away his candy. Later in English class, he sits next to Otis Milburn, who he calls New Kid. The two are supposed to do a project together for the next class, so Adam arranges a meeting at Otis' after school.

While at Otis' house, Otis is doing all the work, while Adam explores the house. When he finds Otis' mother's (who's a sex therapist) office, he's amused with the items he finds there. Finally Otis realizes that Adam snuck into the office and asks him not to tell anyone about this. Jean comes back home, after what all of them are on a balcony. Jean and Adam smoke weed, whereas Otis is embarassed with his mother's behavior. Adam reveals that he smokes everyday, after what Jean tells him that this can cause problems with his penis in the future. Adam gets upset and angrily leaves Milburn house, telling Otis that he and his mum were freaks.

When Adam gets home, his father doesn't like the lateness his son came back home, so he takes Adam's phone away. Then, Adam goes to his room, where Aimee snuck into through the window. Adam's surprised to see her and Aimee attempts to give him a hand job, but Adam was once again unable to ejaculate. Aimee angrily stormed down the stairs and greeted his parents, letting them know that Adam had a girl in his room without their knowledge. His father gets angry once again, calling him downstairs.

The next day, Adam became desperate and took 3 Viagra pills while at school. Otis and Maeve overheard Adam scream in the bathroom and learned of his predicament. Otis gave Adam an advice, encouraging him to embrace his heritage and appendage. That's why later, Adam decided to flash other students in the cafeteria to break the rumors and to show he is proud of his size. For Aimee, who had already been considering breaking up with Adam, this was the last straw.

The two had "goodbye" sex in a science lab during which Adam finally ejaculated, after which she broke up with him, but was happy that he finally climaxed.

### Episode 2

Kyle tells Adam that his mum forbode him to hang out with Adam, ending the friendship with him.

In the evening, Adam sneaks uninvited to Aimee's house party, starting beating Kyle, who started dating Aimee. During the fight, Adam smashed the urn containing Aimee's grandmother's ashes on Kyle's head.

Later, embarrassed Adam leaves the Gibbs house beside Eric, who tells Adam how similar they are; they're two losers that nobody wants.

### Episode 3

Adam's watching the swimming competition at Moordale pool. There, he sees his father hugging Jackson Marchetti, the best swimmer in the school, who he treats better than his own son.

### Episode 4

Adam's father can't bear his son's behavior anymore, so he threatens to send him to military school if Adam doesn't change his behavior.

After school, Adam goes on a walk with his mother's dog, Madam. During the walk, two dogs approach him and Madam. The dogs turn out to be Eric's, who got the job as dog walker. After a while, Adam and Eric start to talk, during which Eric says that Madam sounded a bit like Adam, what made Adam a little bit nervous. Suddenly, Madam runs away and Adam tells Eric he shouldn't have walked dogs if he couldn't control them, after what he starts to chase Madam.

He didn't find her, and after a couple of hours he comes back home, telling his parents he lost Madam. His father is incredibly angry at him and says that he couldn't even walk a dog after some time, Adam angrily goes to his room, but then sneaks out and goes to Eric's house, throwing dog poop on the car of Effiong family.

The next day at school, he meets Eric on a corridor, asking him if he felt dog shit. Later Adam accosts Maeve, telling her to wirte an essay for him. At first, she declines, but then agrees after Adam agreed to pay triple.

### Episode 6

Adam wins the school essay competition with an essay Maeve wrote for him. He reads the essay out loud in front of whole school, unable to read some words from it; Maeve helps him out, which is noticed not only by Otis, but also English teacher, Emily Sands. For a winning, Adam gets a trophy and proudly poses to a photo with it.

After getting home after school, his mother, grandparents and his father are surprising him with an official dinner they're having due to Adam's win. Maureen and his grandparents are so proud of him, whereas Michael is sure that the essay wasn't Adam's and his winning is one big misunderstanding.

### Episode 7

Adam's allowed to come to the school dance by his father. They pose to a photo together, but it's visible that they don't have the best relations; Adam's scared to give his father a proper hug, whereas Michael gets angry at Maureen because of the poses she makes them to do.

After getting to the school, Adam thanks his father for letting him to come.

During the ball, he's watching Aimee and her new boyfriend, Steve dancing, which slowly makes him angry.

After Eric decided to come to the ball and Adam notices him in front of the school, he says that he was gonna kill him. They stood face to face for a few seconds looking into each other's eyes, when Eric asks him if he was gonna do it now or later. Adam doesn't reply so Eric goes into the school, leaving Adam behind.

Watching his ex-girlfriend being happy with someone else makes Adam feel uncomfortable and kind of angry; he suddenly stands up and interrupts their dance, starting to pushing Steve, but then is interrupted by his father, who asks Steve if he's okay. Out of the blue Adam attacks his father, saying that he hates him, but after a while, having realized that the whole school is watching him, he leaves without any word.

### Episode 8

After the dance, didn't come back home and slept at school. After he's woken up by a janitor who's vacuuming, he notices some unaswered calls from his mom. Then, he decides to come back home.

After getting home, he meets his father sitting in the living room, who told him to be quiet, because Maureen was worrying sick and had gone to sleep some time before he got home. Adam goes to his room to get ready for school.

After classes, Adam needs to stay at detention he got. He joins Eric, and together are supposed to clean up one of the classrooms. Everything ends up that Eric's doing all the work while Adam's sitting and watching Eric cleaning up the classroom. Suddenly, Eric calls Adam an arsehole. The two began to argue and then fight. Eric spits on Adam, so Adam pinned Eric onto the floor and spit back. They stare into each other's eyes for a while and then start making out and end up having sex. After the whole thing, Adam tells Eric if he told anyone about this he would fucking end him, after what he leaves.

The next day, during the science class, the two start to hold hands; which means that Adam starts to accept the thing that he feels something to Eric. After school Adam accidentaly finds Madam, bringing her back home. After getting there, he meets his mother and the principal of military school, who came there to take Adam to his new school, by Michael's order. Adam begs Maureen to not making him go, but helpless Maureen tells him that was what his father wanted. Adam starts packing and after some time he's ready to go. He says goodbye to his mother, and then notices Eric, who was then riding past Adam's house. They look at each other for a while, when Adam's finally getting in the car with the principal of the military school, hitting the road.

## Season Two

### Episode 2

Adam's now at Mountview Military Institution. There, he meets two other students, Eli and Luke, who help him to get acclimatized.

Eli and Luke wake Adam up in the early morning and take him outside. Sitting on a tree, the three are having a nice talk, during which Adam tells them he misses his mum, but he doesn't miss his father. Later, Eli and Luke ask Adam if he had a girlfriend. He agrees and tells them about Aimee, even though the two broke up some time ago.

Later, Adam accidentally walks in on Luke and Eli when they're wanking each other off. Even though Adam tells them that he won't tell anybody, Eli and Luke plant drugs in his bed and report it to the Commander. Adam tells him they weren't his, but after the Commander asks why would they do that, Adam decides not to tell him about Luke and Eli being gays. Adam gets kicked out of the military school.

When he leaves the school building and see his father in distance, he tells Commander the truth about the whole situation, but it doesn't change his situation; he's kicked out anyways. When he gets in his parents' car, Michael is angry at Adam and tells him that this was his last chance; now, he's supposed to find himself a job.

### Episode 3

Adam really tries to improve his relationship with his father; he woke up early and washed his car, despite this Michael is angry at Adam once again, telling him that he'd taken his car to the carwash two days before.

Adam gets a job as a cashier at Browns Village Store in his family town. His boss, Yousef, teaches him how to scan barcodes. They are interrupted by Yousef's dog Jessie, who barks. Yousef tells Adam that Jessie is an untrained rescue, so he shouldn't let her out. During his first day at work Adam meets Eric after long time. Eric comes to the store with Rahim, and asks Adam when he'd come back. Adam, angrily trying to show he doesn't care about Eric, says that it was none of his business, and calls Eric a Tromboner. After that, Eric loses his will to go to Rahim's, saying goodbye to him and sharing a kiss with him. This hurts Adam, who's stil watching them.

### Episode 4

Adam's going to work and is approached by Eric, who wants to talk with him about what happened between them during detention. Adam acts like he doesn't know what Eric's talking about, but they're interrputed by Rahim anyway. Adam enters the shop, leaving Eric alone with Rahim.

Later, he meets Ola, who turns out to be his colleague. She buys a packet of condoms, as she need them for the meeting with Otis, during which the two are supposed to have their first time.

In the evening, Adam goes to Eric's house, starting to throw small stones at the window of Eric's bedroom. After a while Eric comes to Adam, who tells Eric to go with him. Eric, after a moment of a doubt, decides to go with him. Adam takes Eric on a abondoned junkyard, where the two start to smash things all night long, and start to talk early morning. Eric reveals that he's happy that Adam's back. After Eric walked Adam home, the two share a kiss, which is interrupted by barking of a dog.

### Episode 5

After another night meeting, Adam walks Eric home.

Later, at work, he has a shift with Ola, who had a sex dream about her friend, Lily. Ola starts to think that she's lesbian, asking Adam if he had ever had a sex dream about a guy. Adam replies that he didn't dream, because he'd smoked too much weed. Ola takes a test on a Internet, which tells her that she's pansexual. Adam says 'like fucking pots and pans?', and then tells Ola he knew a guy who used to stick his dick in the suction pipe of a vacuum cleaner.

After work, Adam's trying to wank in his room to the photo of a man, but is interrupted by Madam. He hears his parents having an argument, and after some time, Maureen calls Adam downstairs, letting him know that she's divorcing Michael.

When Eric, Otis and Remi are coming back from their trip, Eric waves at Adam, who's walking Madam at the time; he ignores Eric.

### Episode 6

Adam comes to Otis' party, where he sees Eric and Rahim kissing. Eric notices him, and goes to talk to him outside. Adam asks Eric why he'd stopped coming to the window. Eric says 'You bullied me for years, Adam. You made me feel unsafe for years. You were one of the main reasons I wasn't kind to myself. And I'm supposed to believe you've suddenly changed? You're full of shame man, and I can't be in that place anymore. I've had to work really hard to love myself, and I won't go back to hiding things about me again.' Adam tells Eric that he's scared and he thinks he's bisexual. Eric asks if he was okay, when Adam pushes his hand away; Eric says Rahim could hold his hand.

Adam confides to Eric that he feels like everyone hates him, whereas Eric says that it's hard to like someone who doesn't like themselves, leaving Adam.

Rest of the evening Adam spends laying under a tree in front of Milburn house, until the moment Ola throws her shoe at him, after Otis made her angry. Adam asks Ola if she want to go and smash some stuff. Ola agrees and they go to the junkyard, where they're able to let their pain out.

### Episode 7

Yousef leaves Adam alone with Jessie. Yousef describes Jessie the dog as annoying and said she didn't respond to the command "sit". However, Adam later taught Jessie to sit to by tempting her with some honey roast ham. This deeply surprised Yousef, who didn't think that Jessie would ever learn it, praising Adam.

Later, Otis comes to the store to buy two cans of Coke for him and Ruby, and Adam asks him how was Eric and furthermore, Adam tells Otis he didn't want to hurt Eric anymore.

The next day, when Adam comes to work, it turns out that when Adam was closing the store the day before, the door did not close properly; which caused some robbers to burgle into the store.

### Episode 8

Adam goes to Moordale Secondary to deliver some stuff to his father, out of Maureen's ask. There, he meets Eric and has a small talk with him. Eric encourages Adam to come to the musical this day. The two laugh and are seen by Rahim, who starts to get jealous of Adam.

Later, Adam goes to the store to get his job back. There, he meets Rahim, who knows what's going on between Adam and Eric. After Rahim leaves, Adam asks Yousef to give him back the job, while Ola's walking in the store, coming for her paycheck. Ola gets to know about Adam's situation and stands up for him. She tells Yousef that the last time she used the key it didn't work properly either, so it was her fault that the robberies got into the store, and if he fires Adam, he should fire her too. Angry Yousef fires them both. After leaving the store, Adam asks Ola why she'd done it. Then, Ola calls Adam her friend and tells him she loved him. Adam hugs her.

Adam comes back home, where he meets Maureen, who tells him that he should let people he loves know that he loves them. It causes that Adam runs to Moordale Secondary to confess his feelings for Eric. After getting there, he interrups the show by running onto the stage during the production of *Romeo & Juliet* and calls out Eric's name. Eric, who was playing French horn in the orchestra, got up onto the stage. Adam professed their love for Eric, and it was reciprocated.

After the show, Eric introduces Adam to his mother and sisters. They're looking up to Adam for his braveness.

## Season Three

### Episode 1

Between seasons 2 and 3, Adam got back to Moordale Secondary, and, according to the students, his mum bribed the school to let him back. He's also dating Eric, officially becoming a gay and even though Adam came out in front of everyone, he didn't tell his mother about it.

On the first day of school in the early September 2021, he rides to school with Eric and Otis. After getting there, Adam feels like everyone's staring at him, not feeling comfortable with it. While going into the school, the three are interrupted by Good Morning Moordale Journalist, who asks them questions on last term's chlamydia outbreak.

After classes, Adam's waiting for Eric beside his bike, when suddenly some students start to make laugh at Adam for being gay. Eric comes and hugs Adam, while he steps away from Eric and approaches boy who made fun of him, pushing him. Eric is deeply disappointed with Adam's behavior and angrily leaves him. Adam, feeling that everyone's staring at him, ask them what they all were looking at, later leaving school on his own.

After getting home, Adam's laying on the bed in his room, still thinking about earlier situation. He's interrupted by Ola, who visits him to talk to him about what happened. Adam offers her going and smashing some stuff, but Ola suggests talking istead. Adam tells Ola he was not good at talking and Ola starts to tell Adam how she dealt with her mother's death, realizing Adam that talking is the only thing that can help fix problems. Adam tells Ola that he didn't want people to think he's a pussy, after what Ola tells him it's normal for men to date men and that men don't need to hit things. Ola also tells Adam he needed to tell Eric how he fell, but then, Adam wanted to do punching pillow thing first.

Next day at school, Adam tells Eric he wanted to change, after what they both go to the changing room before PE lesson. There, Jordan asks Adam if he was a poofter then. Adam proudly agrees, finally making Eric feel happy. Later, when Adam starts to dressing up for PE, Dex walks in the changing room, noticing Adam's long penis, which makes him feel uncomfortable with his one.

After school, Adam leaves the school alongside Eric and Otis, getting a timetable from Miss Sands, after she marked the test he took. It's revealed that Eric told Adam about Otis and Ruby's affair, Adam told Ola, then Ola told Lily, and finally, Lily told everyone.

The next day, Adam arrives to school with Eric and Otis again, when suddenly Ruby approaches Otis, telling him she wants their affair to last despite that everyone knows about it. Adam and Eric watch Otis and Ruby passionate kiss and then watch the abondoned toilets being destroyed with other students.

### Episode 2

Adam and Eric are in Adam's room, putting make-up on each other. The two decide to finally have sex. Suddenly, they interrupted by Maureen, who walks in Adam's room, asking if everything was alright after she heard some noises from the room. After she notices messy bed, Adam tells her they were doing some karate.

Adam's trying to be better at school than he was in the past. Miss Sands offers him her help, After school, he and Eric are having a romantic picnic, during which they're supposed to have sex for the first time. During the picnic, Eric unpacks his stuff, taking out lubricant and condoms from the bag. Adam, feeling under pressure, tells Eric it wasn't what he wanted, after what Eric gets angry and leaves, telling Adam that Otis was right telling him Adam wasn't feeling comfortable with himself as gay.

Angry Adam comes to Otis' house and tells Otis to stop talking about him to Eric, because their relationship is none of Otis' business. Otis suggests Adam telling Eric how he feels by writing down what he wants to say, or telling him it with closed eyes. Adam takes the advantage of Otis' advise and leaves Otis' house, telling him to wear his normal clothes again; according to Adam, the top Ruby gave Otis makes his neck look really long.

Adam comes to Eric's house, and sitting in his room, he tells him, turned backwards, that he wants to have sex with him. The two end up having sex, and in early morning Adam leaves Eric's house, being afraid that Eric's parents may notice he stayed over the night.

Next day at school, he tells Miss Sands he want to get better and he'd like to move up a bit.

### Episode 3

At school, Adam's eating a sweet bun, filled with confiture, whereas Eric was approached by Rahim, who wanted Eric to give him back the book he's given him. Rahin tells Adam he had confiture on his tie, which later was Adam licked off. Then, during assembly, Adam and Eric are listening to the new school anthem, "*Non Sibi, sed Toti*", they do not really enjoy it.

In the evening, Adam and Eric has a double date with Otis and Ruby at Moordale Lanes. At first, the whole meeting is awkward and boring; Ruby was disgusted and annoyed by Adam's poor manners and irrational conversations like mistaking her glucose intolerance for diabetes or asking if anyone is smelling their farts. After Ruby announced that Kim Kardashian is pregnant with another surrogate baby, Adam asked her if she doesn't think that it's weird how the second surrogate wasn't on the show, revealing that he enjoys watching the Kardashians with his mom. Soon after that Ruby warmed up to Adam, asking him questions about different Kardashian shows and suggesting to keep up in contact with each other.

After a date, Adam and Eric go to Adam's, while Adam tells Eric he didn't want him to go to Nigeria, as it's dangerous to be gay there. Eric tells him Adam doesn't understand it and angry Adam asks if Rahim would understand, which upsets Eric. After getting to Adam's house, they meet Maureen and her boyfriend, Hugh, shugging. After being interrupted by Adam, Maureen introduces Hugh to him and Eric. When Maureen's introducing Eric to Hugh she's in doubt who Eric is for Adam, and after a while, Adam, still not being ready to tell his mother the truth, calls Eric his friend, and after a moment, disappointed Eric leaves Adam house. Later, Adam sends Eric a text where he says he hadn't been ready. Eric replies him that it'd been okay.

### Episode 4

After English class, Adam's sitting in the classroom with Miss Sands, who's marking his test. Adam suggests if he gets a B he could move up a bit. Emily keeps her fingers crossed, later reminding him how sentences needs full stops. After some time, satisfied Adam leaves the classroom, meeting Anwar on the corridor. He freaks out when he sees Anwar's face, which got some kind of rash, telling him something had happened to his face. Anwar replies him in his classical, rude way. Adam goes upstairs, passing by Ruby and Olivia.

Adam takes part in SRE class organized by Hope. He, Eric and rest of the boys in the classroom, are embarrassed and amused with the level of the lesson.

Later, Adam's taking another English test. After lesson, he notices Eric and Rahim talking, and decides to approach them. Eric and Rahim were talking about poetry; Adam says Eric didn't like poetry and that was why he was giving Rahim his books back, which makes Eric angry, becuase he never said he disliked poetry. After Rahim leaves them, Eric aks Adam why he said it. Adam responds that he hadn't known he did like the poetry and then asks if he cares what Rahim thought. The two are having another fight, which ends up with Eric saying it'd better for them to get them some space when he was in Nigeria. Adam gets upset at Eric.

Later, at home, Adam's looking out the window, noticing his father leaving his house, as he visited Maureen to give her some mangos, hoping they can fix things between them. Adam and Michael look at each other for a moment, but after some time, Adam steps away from the window, realizing he doesn't want to end up like his father, decides to go to Eric's and apologize to him. The two share a kiss.

Finally, the day when Moordale students go on a school trip to France comes. Adam rides to school on his own (Eric's not going on a trip due to the wedding in Nigeria). There, he meets Miss Sands and asks her how he'd done on the test. Emily, tells him he got a D but encourages him to keep trying.

Adam gets on the coach, being forced to sit beside Rahim, as it was the last unoccupied seat.

### Episode 5

In France, during exploring Beaumont-Hamel museum, the teachers split students into small groups. Adam's group consisted of him, Rahim (Eric's ex-boyfriend), Steve (Aimee's current boyfriend) and Kyle (Aimee's ex-boyfriend and Adam's former best friend). Noticing this, Kyle described it as awkward. At some point Adam approached Rahim, claiming he hadn't stolen his boyfriend. Rahim shrugged and said that had been exactly what Adam had done, leaving Adam behind.

Later, after getting on the coach, Adam eats candy with Lily, who's sitting opposite him. Whereas Rahim, is interrptued by Connor, who still asks him questions if it was true he didn't wank anymore because Eric had broken his heart. Rahim gets angry, and Adam to make the whole situation less awkward, tells Rahim if he didn't wank anymore his testicles went blue. Confused Rahim goes to use the toilet.

After someone threw a poo out of the coach window, the students are disgusted with it. When it's revealed the poo was in the sock, Mr. Hendricks starts to check boys' socks. Adam, seeing fear in Rahim's eyes, and then, that he has no sock on his feet, admits that the poo is his, after what Rahim decides to finally own up. Despite this, everyone thinks the poo is Adam's and Miss Sands tells Adam to clean this mess up, when other students step away from the accident site. Rahim's impressed with Adam's behavior, especially that he thought Adam hated him.

While coming back home, Rahim reads poetry, and Adam says he thought that poetry was dumb. Rahim suggests him he should start listen to it and later tells Adam he wrote a poem about him.

Already being at Moordale, Adam's texting with Eric, who's now in Nigeria, a few minutes later leaving school area.

### Episode 6

First day of school after the school trip. Adam's sitting on assembly hall waiting for an assembly to begin. During assembly, Adam, Lily, and Cal are all invited on a stage and are given shame signs by Hope. Adam's sign refers to the situation from Friday and the school trip; it says that he's unhyginic. When Hope was humiliating Adam, Rahim stays up for him and says that it was school not a place they should be afraid of. After this, Hope suspends Rahim.

After school, Adam visits Rahim at his house. He apologizes him that he got suspended for him, but Rahim corrects him and says he got suspended for what he believed in. Later, Adam asks Rahim if he could rate the poem he wrote for Eric. At first, Rahim makes laugh at this, but then, realizing that Adam was serious, he agrees. After reading this he says it wasn't good poetry and that Adam shouldn't have written poetry because Rahim wrote it. Adam denies it and says that he wrote it because Eric liked it. Later, it's shown how different Rahim and Adam are; Rahim is a cat person, whereas Adam prefers dogs.

At home, Adam's using the computer and is checking his mailbox, when he gets an advertisement about Midgeville County Dog Trials that takes place in late October this year. He wonders about taking part in it.

### Episode 7

Adam starts to prepare Madam for the Dog Trials he eventually decided to take part in. He's interrputed by Eric, who came back from Nigeria and the two are supposed to ride to school together.

Adam is present during 'The Thing' beside Ola. After everything, Adam and Eric go to Adam's house, where Adam shows Eric videos with Madam he filmed and wonders if Madam is ready for the competition. Adam tells Eric that he's the only one he wants to be there during the contest. Also, Eric suggests Adam going to places that are more gay, but Adam doesn't find it as something which would be for him. Later, Eric decides to tell Adam what happened in Nigeria; that he kissed another guy. After hearing this, Adam nearly starts to cry, having to go to another room so Eric doesn't see him.

In the evening, Eric sends Adam a text; he asks Adam to speak to him. Adam, still being angry and upset about the news; doesn't reply him.

### Episode 8

On the table in the kitchen, Maureen finds a flyer announcing the Dog Trials Adam and Madam are taking part in. She asks Adam about this and why he didn't invite her. Adam responds that he hadn't thought she'd like to come, telling her he'd ask her next time.

At school, Adam approaches Miss Sands, telling her he took her advice seriously about the fact that everyone's good at something, showing her the flyer announcing the dog competition. Emily seems proud of him and says she'd try her best to be there. Later, Adam meets Rahim, who could come back earlier from the suspension. He shares the news with him, telling him about the whole thing with Eric and the dog competition; Rahim describes the competition thing as very stupid.

Then, it's announced that Hope's gone. So Adam and Rahim, alongside Maeve, Cal and Viv come to Hope's office, checking it. There's no Hope in the office for real, whereas Colin comes to the room. The students make laugh that he should be the one who applies to be next headteacher.

During one of the breaks, students get to know that the school will be sold soon so they need to find themselves new schools. These informations shock and freak everyone out, especially that Adam and rest of them are during their final year of school. After hearing the news, Adam gives Rahim another poem he wrote for Eric. Rahim's supposed to rate it as well and let Adam know if the poem's good or bad. Later, Eric comes to school to talk to Adam, and the two decide to go home together.

While walking on the bridge, Adam and Eric are having a serious talk. Eric reveals that the kiss he shared with Oba in Nigeria was not just a stupid kiss and it was something. Later, Eric says some things about their relationship; that he's ready to fly and Adam's just learning to walk. In the end, Adam doesn't want to talk with Eric any longer; Eric walks away from him. Angry Adam takes off his backpack and throws it at his bike, starting to cry.

In the evening, Adam and his mum go to the Dog Trials. Adam feels stressed about how he'll do at the contest. Eventually, Adam doesn't reach any place of the top 3, but despite this, he gets a special mention for one of the best debut performances the judges have ever seen in a very long time. Which makes proud Maureen and Miss Sands whooping and applauding as loud as they can. Seeing the two being happy with his results, a smile appears on Adam's face.

After the whole event, Adam's texting with Rahim, who texts him that his poem hadn't been great, but hadn't been bad. Adam thanks him, whereas approaches Maureen. Finally, Adam decides to tell Maureen the truth about what was between him and Eric; Adam admits that Eric wasn't his friend but a boyfriend and they broke up. Maureen hugs him. Later, Adam asks her not to tell Michael he hadn't won a proper prize, because he'd be disappointed. Maureen agrees, after what Adam walks away.