Instead of attending the Wakefield's annual sleep over, Jessica opts to to attend a dinner with Bruce and his friends from Harvard.

Bruce put up a fortune-teller at the moon beach, and the fortunes Jessica and Lila get only predict bad luck, which ends up coming true. Elizabeth goes on a date with a guy to the bowling alley, and when Todd hears this he decides to go as well and bring a date of his own.

Jessica and Lila are excited to hear that a new Patman (Reginald Patman) will be coming to Sweet Valley now that Bruce has left to join the army. Lila throws Reginald a party for him. Todd and his superstitions annoy Elizabeth. Winston hopes to become the manager at the moon beach so he tries to make the place look great and he hires a busboy to help him out.

The group makes a bet. They all have to give up their special quirks they have for 2 days, and if they crack they have to put 25 dollars in the pot. Whoever doesn't crack at the end of the two days wins all the money. So, for Jessica, this means no flirting, for Lila, no shopping, for Cheryl, no sarcastic remarks, for Todd, talking about sports, and for Enid, no relative stories. When Peter and Elizabeth come across cut fishing nets at the beach they find out that Shred's father R.J Patman is responsible for this. Peter dreams of this being a big story, and Shred is scared to confront his father about the situation.

Jessica helps out A.J.'s band by giving their demo tape to a Dj to play on the radio. However, helping A.J.'s band to beome big, threatens to end Jessica and A.J.'s relationship. Meanwhile, Liz has an extra ticket to a concert and decides to give away her extra ticket. Todd ends up with the ticket.

Jessica hits her head on a door and dreams she and her friends are characters in one of her soap operas. Jessica's married to Winslow and is accused of killing Delilah. She only has 24 hours to prove her innocence. Rod, the clueless detective, has to find out who it was that killed Delilah. Low down Liz Wakefield is Jessica's evil twin who works at the gloom beach cafe, and is the one who did try to kill Delilah. The other characters are the nurse, Cheryl, who is in love with the doctor, Shred, a rocker, Enid, and Manno, the officer who is madly in love with Enid.

Winston convinces Todd to go ahead with his traditional jump off Jackson's bluff with the basketball team, joined by Winston himself. Jessica and Lila want to spend Spring break in Europe, but there is only on problem. Jessica fails her social studies test, and is forced to take a make-up test and pass it, or else spend spring break with the teacher taking make-up classes.

The big game against Big Mesa is coming up and the pranks start to begin again. Sweet Valley isn't as sure to win as they first thought they were after Mesa's star player Christian Gorman returns to Big Mesa.

The prank war continues on in preparation of the big game, leading to a fight to be scheduled between the boys from each school. Meanwhile, Jessica starts to date one of the Big Mesa guys and as a result, her popularity begains to fall. Jessica thinks about possibly transferring over to Big Mesa.

Elizabeth finally get the courage to break up with Devon after his recent outbreaks and the fact that he can't control his anger. Jessica helps Renata win back Todd. She tells Renata that Todd likes the all american girl, so she starts to wear boring clothes, hardly any make-up, no jewelry, and straitens her hair in hope that Todd will come back to her.

Devon promises to learn to deal with his anger and liz agrees to help him. The case surrounding his parents's death is re-opened, with Devon as the main suspect. Jessica tries to use the publicity to be in the public eye. Meanwhile, Devon has nightmares and starts to realize that he might in fact have been responsible for the death of his parents.

Through his dreams, Devon realizes that someone else was on board the yacht when his parents died- Sam. Before Devon can tell Liz the identity of this other person, Liz visits Sam to tell him that Devon realized that someone else was on board. Liz is then taken hostage by Sam.

When Jessica gets pulled over for speeding, she gives the officer her sister's ID since she doesn't have her own. When Todd discovers the upcoming test questions he and Winston have to break into the school and return it. Enid and Manny find out they might be related.