Rhonda and the rest of the diner staff also resign, having only stayed for Sam's sake after Hal's death, and the disgusted customers also storm out after witnessing everything.īefore the school's homecoming football game, Sam confronts Austin about his cowardice and lies. Frustrated with her stepmother's emotional abuse for almost a decade and her school-wide humiliation, Sam stands up to Fiona, quits her job at the diner and moves out to live with Rhonda. The torn section reveals a quote from Hal that fills Sam with renewed energy. At the same time, Sam's stepsisters slam the door as they come into the diner, causing a guitar clock to fall off the wall and tear the wallpaper down with it. Sam begins to concede her job as a waitress, but Rhonda encourages her not to lose hope. Meanwhile, Austin opens his acceptance letter for Princeton and hides it from his father.
Fiona presents Sam with this, feigning sympathy, and offers Sam a lifetime job at the diner. Humiliated and upset, Sam leaves in tears.įiona opens Sam's acceptance letter from Princeton, and replaces it with a falsified rejection in order to keep her working at the diner and as her slave. To retaliate, Shelby, Brianna and Gabriella perform a mean-spirited skit at a school pep rally, horrifying the school staff as the emails are read aloud and Sam's identity is revealed to Austin. After failing to convince Austin that they are "Cinderella", they present the emails to Shelby and convince her that Sam tried to steal Austin from her. Later on, Austin goes to the diner and is served by Sam, who attempts to tell him her identity, but is interrupted by Fiona.īrianna and Gabriella discover Sam's emails to Austin and realize that Sam is "Cinderella".
Austin's friends gather girls from around campus who claim to be Cinderella and present them to Austin, but he isn't convinced by any of them. Sam is convinced that Austin will forget about her after the dance, so she is shocked to find he has put hundreds of posters round the school to try to identify her the day after the dance. Finally, Sam and Carter flee to the diner, and the staff attempts to stall Fiona to give Sam enough time to come back, which she does. She gets delayed because Carter, who was Sam's ride back to the diner, was making out with Shelby, after he defended her from another boy trying to force himself on her. She drops her cellphone on her way out, which is picked up by Austin. Sam has to go back to the diner before Fiona, and so she leaves without revealing her identity to Austin, unaware that she's named the homecoming princess along with Austin as the homecoming prince. The two share a romantic dance together, but while Sam learns "Nomad" is Austin, he does not recognize Sam under the mask. After a heart-to-heart with Carter and the diner staff, Sam attends the dance anyway, wearing a white masquerade mask and a wedding dress given to her by Rhonda as "Cinderella." Austin attends as Prince Charming. Meanwhile, Sam asks for the night off to go to the dance, but Fiona refuses this request. Austin attempts to end his relationship with Shelby, who refuses to accept this and continues believing that they are together. "Nomad" and Sam plan to meet in the center of the dance floor at the school's Halloween dance. His father, Andy, has arranged for his son to attend the University of Southern California with a football scholarship. Unknown to Sam, "Nomad"'s true identity is Austin Ames, the popular yet unhappy quarterback of the school's football team The Fighting Frogs, and Shelby's boyfriend. She also finds comfort in her best friend Carter Farrell, and in the diner staff, including Rhonda the manager, Eleanor, a waitress and Bobby the chef. Sam confides in her online pen pal "Nomad", who shares her dream to attend Princeton to become a writer. Sam also struggles to fit in at North Valley High School, where she’s bullied by the popular clique, including head cheerleader Shelby Cummings and her posse. Fiona also refuses to save water during the ongoing drought. Fiona withholds Sam's earnings and uses her inheritance to spend on luxuries for herself and her twins. Sam is trying to save money to attend her dream college, Princeton, but is regularly tormented by her stepfamily, which includes Fiona and her twin daughters, Brianna and Gabriella. Fiona received ownership of the diner as well as the family inheritance after Sam's widowed father, Hal Montgomery, died in the 1994 Northridge earthquake eight years prior and seemingly left no will. Seventeen-year-old Samantha "Sam" Montgomery is a waitress at a diner in the San Fernando Valley run by her stepmother, the vain and greedy Fiona.
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