When Amelia was seventeen, she went off of the rails and got involved with an older man, max Tyler, Amelia ended up pregnant and was forced to give up her chance of going to university. Amelia had her and Max's daughter Liliie-Mae and she wouldn't change it for the world. Amelia only got involved with max to piss her mother off.
Amelia is the daughter of Rachel mason, and Rachel hates that max is her granddaughters father. Rachel has give Amelia the chance to start her life over, and gives her a job as a teacher assistant, she becomes toms teacher assistant.
Things between Amelia and tom are tense. Tense with sexual tension, Tom has a girlfriend Davina, but it doesn't take long for them to end up in bed together again and again. They don't care that tom has a girlfriend, things start to get complicated when max arrives and decides he wants to be in his daughters life, which makes tom and Amelia's relationship. Can they make it work? and what happens when Davina discovered the truth about them?
Leah Tyler is the wild child daughter to max. Leah is out of control, she party's and sleeps with guys all of the time even at the age of fifteen. Max struggles to control her. Leah ends up at waterloo road after the merger, but the night before she sleeps with someone, someone who ends up to be tom clarkson, her English teacher.
When Leah arrives at waterloo road, she and tom are shocked to see each other again. Leah and tom soon end up having a 'just sex' relationship. She knows deep down that she could be doing it to get at max, she wants to punish him for her mum leaving.
Before long Leah starts to look at tom in a different light, she knows that she is falling for tom, but with max starting to get suspicious can they hide their relationship from max or will he soon find out?