Esme Mason is the daughter of Rachel mason. She is young and naive. She is a newly qualified teacher. Esme got close to max Tyler as the merger happened and they started to sleep together. Max is using her for sex to get to Rachel whole Esme is using max to distract her from her feelings for someone else. Esme is secretly in love with Tom Clarkson, she has been in love with him ever since he trained her as a NQT. Esme has tried for so long to hide her feelings but it's not that easy, especially as she watches him with rose Esme tried to hide her feelings by sleeping with max. She knew that max is bad news and she knows that Rachel and max have a war going on between them and with max also having a girlfriend he is treating badly on the side how long can Esme live a lie by lying over her feelings for Tom and hiding her secret passion with max?