Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind

Fifteen-year-old Will Carter returns for his sophomore year of high school. Things start off pretty normally. He's back on the football team (keeping the bench warm). He and his boys set up a fight club to learn to defend themselves against Scary Terry Moss. And he takes Amber Lee to homecoming again, though this time she is all kinds of pregnant (not with his kid, but that probably goes without saying).

When his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Abby, is accepted to the New York Drama School, Carter's world is thrown upside down. She wants him to apply to the school, and he kind of really wants to. But if he moves to New York, what will happen to his boys? And with his sister headed to college, can his parents survive without him? Plus, the application is really long.

It will take a log of soul-searching for Carter to make his decision. In the meantime, there are plenty of classes to be late to, parties to avoid, and cops to run from.