Can't wait for Graduation Day when they all walk away knowing how NOT to act in a properly healthy relationship. I count this story as a time of education and self realization. Everyone, at one point or another, needs that and what better time than adolescence. Seriously though, this author really wants their characters to go through some kind of metamorphoses even if it means making them all look selfish and, well, like assholes to themselves, each other and the audience itself. It kind of makes you root for them in some weird way; 'Yes, suffer, suffer now. Go through those growing pains, discover who you are and BE better than this', kind of thing.
I really don't like these characters as people but I do like the way they're written as characters.