Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) While Devi was initially waitlisted at Princeton during early decision, she later gets accepted to the dream school — and nabs valedictorian of her senior class.
It initially seems like she’s heading off to high education solo, but Ben shows up at her grandmother’s (Ranjita Chakravarty) wedding the night before she heads to New Jersey and the two sleep together, deciding to give long-distance a try.
Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Darren Barnet) After dropping out of Arizona State University, returning to his high school to coach the varsity swim team and having a brief reconciliation in a closet with Devi,
Paxton realizes he wants to be a teacher and heads back to college. He also begins dating Lindsay (Genneya Walton), a new teacher at Sherman Oaks High.
While he leaves right after graduation for an internship in New York City, he eventually returns to tell Devi how he feels about her and proposes that the twosome make a long-distance relationship work.