Mama Hope drops the girls off at the community pool where Lola is waiting. Bo pleads with Lola to be let out of swimming lessons, but Lola asserts they are non-negotiable: The family has beach trips planned in the summer, and Lola wants Bo to be safe.

After assessing her current skill level, the coach affirms that Bo is a beginner and puts her in the shallow end with three younger girls. Bo chats with one of them, eight-year-old Tiffany, and they decide to be lesson buddies. By the end of the session, Bo discovers swimming is not so bad after all. Just as she is beginning to feel upbeat, Lita arrives at the pool and laughs at Bo when she sees her with the beginners.

Everyone is subdued on the way home after the encounter with Lita. Bo looks forward to some alone time with Lola back home, but Lola steps out almost immediately. The girls drift away to do their own things until Bo spies all the adults together in the wild, overrun, old community garden behind their backyard.

The girls head out to investigate, and the adults tell them that a company that had been buying property in the neighborhood originally tried to acquire the garden as well.