The Athena

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Season 1
Nyela's conflicted: although she's embarked upon a new path away from modelling, she feels she could maybe undo some of the upset her dramatic exit from the business caused.
At the Athena, Nyela sees all the cliques and groups that have already formed. She feels like she doesn't fit into any of them - can she find her own gang of friends?
It's Nyela Malik's first day at the Athena College of Visual Arts and she's not sure what her future there will hold... not least because Nyela isn't quite like her fellow foundation course students.
Nyela accepts Allie's offer: she's going to study in New York! Leigh reacts badly - Nyela's her 'in case of emergency' person. What will she do without her?
Nyela's finally together with Sam but resigned to him leaving the Athena - then he gets a call from his mum. All her cancer has been removed and while she'll need check-ups, she's doing well.
Excitement is building ahead of the foundation students' summer ball but, for Nyela, it's tinged with sadness now she knows Sam will be leaving the Athena.
It's the day of Sam's mum's lumpectomy. Nyela is with him and his sister Nancy at the hospital. Allie has set an assignment - to design their outfits for the foundation course summer ball.
Sam gets a phone call which unsettles him. When an excited Lenny tells him about an interview he's set up with a well-known vlogger who's interested in their band, Sam's keen - until he finds out when it's taking place.
Nyela's looking forward to a visit from her dad, Ralf, and her sister, Lena, and is making Lena a dress - just as she used to make her clothes before she came to the Athena.
Nyela's worried that telling Sam how she feels has undermined her friendship with him - it's created an awkwardness that she's worried will never go... and she has to find a way of ending it.
Nyela realises she can't prevaricate about her feelings for Sam any longer - she has to act. With good luck wishes from Lexy and Miju, she heads to the Athena, resolved to tell him how she feels.
Lenny has been so great to Nyela recently that when the class gets an assignment to design and make a jacket, she decides doing one for him would be a great way of saying thank you.
Nyela's back at the Athena but things between her and her old gang are a little strained, with the exception of Lenny.
Nyela is determined to get back into the Athena and starts her campaign by leaving a dress for Allie - the dress she should have made for Leigh in her first assignment.
Nyela's heading home to her family. Miju and Lexy say goodbye. Meanwhile, Lenny is unhappy at the Athena: he's too heartbroken to be around Leigh, and Sam's still cool with him.
Nyela is trying to be optimistic about her future - she may be out of the Athena but she's sent CVs to almost every fashion designer in London. And her persistence pays off.
Trying to reunite Neisha with her parents, Nyela invites them to the Mid Year Show. At the showcase, Leigh introduces Lenny to her mum, Melissa, with whom she has a difficult relationship.
Tension is mounting among the foundation students at the Athena: it's the run-up to the Mid Year Show. Not everyone will have a piece of work picked, so each student needs to produce something that is uniquely them.
Nyela's fine when Leigh cancels meeting up one night - until she sees that Satori has posted an image of her and Leigh hanging out. Oblivious, Leigh doesn't understand why Nyela is behaving strangely the next day.
Struggling with her feelings and hating keeping secrets from Lenny, Leigh tells Satori she has to tell Lenny what happened between them.
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