"Awkward" is about high-schooler Jenna, who is just trying to survive high school Her BFF "T" is the one who gives her advice, good and bad. Jenna faces many obstacles of sex, friends, guys, and just fitting in. Val is her school counselor who sometimes goes a little overboard with her "advice". But Matty is everything she has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend--except that he won't take her out in public.