Forget about Attatchments and This Life cos As If is back! Six young Londoners struggle with life's big issues. Love, friendship, careers and who's getting them in. Heads in the sky, pants on the floor - they may be getting older but are they any wiser? As If...
Nicki meets a handsome musical producer named Riggs and is pretty soon all over him at a party. He invites her and Sasha to a private party the next night, but Sasha has second thoughts about going when Nicki says Rob can't go.
Jamie is a bit freaked out after he has a dream about him and Sooz as a loving parent-couple in the future. Their affair is still a secret to all of their friends, which bothers Sooz, and they have a vague fight where she says he's not her boyfriend.
Riggs won't stop hitting on Sasha, and she's finding it harder and harder to avoid giving into temptation. She gets mad at every move he makes, but at the same time is confused about her relationship with Rob.
Alex chats with a guy on the internet and arranges to meet him. Sasha lends him keys to the flat for few hours while Rob's working and she's out. Jamie and Sooz have the same idea to use the flat while no one is around not knowing Alex will be there, they steal Rob's keys.
Sooz tells Jamie he's not satisfying her. He asks Rob for advice for a "mate of his" who has a problem with girlfriend. Sooz walks in on their conversation and asks if this "mate" had many satisfied customers in past.
Sooz has a conflict: she wants to tell everyone about her relationship with Jamie, but at the same time she's mad at him for lying about seeing Gabi. She stalks Gabi to see what she has that makes her so attractive to Jamie, but finds nothing except for habits of a woman older than hers.
Nicki discovers the truth behind her dad's court appearance and is less than impressed. She walks out telling him that he's on his own. Sasha is less than the friend she ought to be to Nicki when Nicki needs someone to talk to, prioritising her valuable studio time over friendship. Nicki is unhappy with having to work, and having to work in a dodgy designer-label-free shop!
Sasha didn't come home one night and Rob was really worried, then in the morning he had a go at her about it but couldn't be direct so he said he was cross because she'd left the bathroom in a mess.
Alex and Mark go out for a meal and start having "serious" conversations, talking about love etc. Alex realises that Mark is hiding something. He first confesses that he is bisexual then that he has a girlfriend. Alex has a strop and tries to leave and Mark tells him to stay put.
Rob throws Sasha out after hearing her and Riggs talking on her mix tape. Hurt, Sasha temporarily moves in with Riggs, but problems soon arise after she accidentally shrinks one of his favorite T's, and she sleeps at Nicki's for comfort.
Sooz bonds with her art teacher, someone who at first shares the same impressions of the world as her. But her teacher feels uneasy once Jamie shows up at the bar.
Jamie is trying to be more romantic with Sooz, but he never seems to guess what mood she is in. He goes to Sooz's and sets up a romantic dinner, with flower petals on her bad. While waiting for her, he starts to go through her discs for some music and ends up finding her taped therapy sessions.
Nicki is spending some quality time with her father, since he feels like he should make up for all the lost time while she was growing up. Nicki's posture of being a "daddy's girl" falls apart when her father walks in on her and the waiter from the restaurant of the night before in her room on the morning after.
Sasha invites Rob to her birthday party, and in an act of nervousness he asks her if he can bring his girlfriend with him. Problem is that he doesn't have one, so he convinces mysterious Saffron to be his date to the party, even after discovering that all her stories were lies.
Alex lies to Mark and meets Dan, while Nikki has a creepy experience with a too-much-pierced friend of Riggs.
Sasha's honeymoon with Riggs is over, she feels mistreated by him and his spoiled teenage daughter Portia only makes everything worse.
Rob meets an attractive woman at a party and Sasha begins to wonder if she did the right choice when she chose Riggs.
Jamie, Sooz, Nicki, Alex and Mark are out to dinner celebrating Jamie's birthday. Sooz is clearly not in a partying mood and after Jamie's speech in which he declares his love for her, she storms out of the restaurant.
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At the bar, after overhearing Sooz make a nasty comment about her, Sasha follows her to the bathroom and tells her that Jamie slept with Nicki. She is devastated. Jamie later overhears Sooz telling Alex that although they had broken up and she has no claim to him, she is really upset by it. Jamie confronts Sooz but she is defensive, telling him that what he does doesn't concern her anymore. Jamie tells her that she does care, and she accuses him of being arrogant, but Nicki walks in on them talking and the conversation ends. Riggs proposes to Sasha.