Megan decides to punish Rose after learning that she tried to cheat on her history exam by grounding her, which is not an easy thing to carry out when Rose takes her punishment a little too seriously. Meanwhile, Laurel travels to Santa Barbara, California to rekindle with an old flame, named Miles Franklin, who follows her back to Florida. Charlie has doubts about living with Mandy at his place. Also, the family chef, Marco, gets a new partner in the kitchen: Charlie's cousin, Louis, whom clashes with the demanding and snobbish Sage. Elsewhere, Will tries to make his romance with Megan work when his work plans change.

Hoping to spend more time with Luis, Sage and Rose plan a charity dinner for Cuban refugees. Megan comes clean to her mother about her feelings of abandonment. Charlie returns to school, spurning jealousy from Mandy when he seeks Megan's help. Megan learns that Lily has been arrested.

Megan seeks to aid her sister, and in so doing learns why Lily is in jail. Will offers to bail Lily out, but both Arthur and Megan refuse saying that Lily should learn a lesson by staying in jail for her long history of making the same dumb mistakes and getting involved with the wrong people. Shelby secretly meets with Will behind Megan's back to ask for his assistance, and he agrees to help... only to find out later what Shelby's real reason is. Meanwhioe, Rose helps Sage pick out a lavish gift for Luis to further get his attention, but neither sister foresees his reaction, while at the same time, Rose finds a love poem and assumes that her nebish classmate Zack wrote it for her.