Mia Jones (Degrassi: The Next Generation) - Season 8

Season 8

In the Season 8 opener, Mia attempts to try out for the "Power Squad", a rebranded version of the Spirit Squad, Degrassi's Cheerleading team. Holly J. is now the leader, and she does not let Mia on the team due to her responsibilities as a mom to a 3 year old, Isabella preventing her from being a reliable cheerleader. Later that day, it is revealed that her mother begins to work from home and is willing to help her out, as long as Mia makes her junior year "her year". Mia is thrilled, and the first thing she does is confront Holly J. to join the Power Squad. Holly J. gives in, and Mia and Danny later pose together at the Fashion Show on the first day of school.

After the fashion show, she is approached by an agent who thinks she has potential. Overjoyed, she hugs Danny and is given job leads to look for modeling work. She auditions for a brand called "T-Bombz" endorsed by Tom Blake, a, fictional, football star. During the audition, she is very nervous, and she messes up. Thinking she bombed the audition, she finds Tom Blake's address after hearing that some models please their clients to get modeling work. The following night she goes over to his house and they end up having sex.

The next day she receives a phone call telling her she got the modeling job, and now Holly J., Chante, and Anya become her friends. She and Danny begin to have a romantic interest, and she also befriends a new girl, Leia. Mia also has her first runway show, after which Tom Blake approaches her to party. Mia and Leia then go to Blake's apartment, where he wants to have group sex with Mia and Leia. Leia immediately backs out, and expects Mia to, but she explains that she does it to keep her job. Leia and Mia then have a falling out, and she leaves. Mia is late for school the next day, and she is given a pass by Principal Sheppard. She learns that she is falling behind in class. Later, she has a photo shoot with Tom. She rebuffs him after finding out before the shoot that she had the job before she slept with Tom. She also finds out that Tom has been married for two years.

The next day, at lunchtime, Mia is hanging out with Riley and all her new friends, who are looking on a laptop at Mia's pictures. Mia asks Danny to sit with her, but since he found out that Mia had sex with Tom to get the job, from Leia, he rejects her. He sarcastically says he will keep her secret, and the episode ends. Darcy's stay at Degrassi is cut short as she leaves for Kenya for a semester, and she has yet to tell Peter. In the hallway, she tells Peter that she is leaving the next day, which leaves Peter very upset and he refuses to speak with her. Later that day, Degrassi has its first football game, and even though they lose, Peter hosts an after-party. He sulks at the party and he is confronted by Mia, who comforts him. They then go for a "walk", or as Peter puts it kind of hook up. The next day, Danny criticizes Peter for going for Mia right after Darcy. Mia then wants to see where their relationship is going, and she talks to him in the hallway. Peter tells her that things are "complicated", and that he does not want to start a relationship and Mia leaves angry. He decides to move on from Darcy and he and Mia have lunch together. But, Clare gives him a note and a trinket that Darcy sends from Africa while he is eating lunch. Mia sees him throw it out, but after lunch is over, he reaches for the note in the garbage, and keeps it, implying he still loves Darcy. Mia's interest in Peter grows, but she feels upset when he begins spending all of his time with his new best friend, Riley. A few days later, Peter hurriedly asks her to make their relationship official, because Peter just wants to prove to all of his new guy friends that he's straight. He later confides in Mia that while playing boxing on his game console, Riley kissed him. Mia is shocked and tells him that they're friends and that shouldn't change because Riley is gay. Holly J. eventually finds out from Leia that Mia slept with Tom Blake to get the job. Holly J. tells a reporter that Mia did this and it airs on television as a sex scandal. Mia grew upset about the incident being revealed and she decides to take action. Because of this, the Power Squad votes Holly J. out of the squad after hearing about what Holly J. did on the news, making Mia captain.

When Mia is hanging out with Peter (and Angel, his half-sister), Mia tells him that he looks cute with her. When Peter makes a comment that he shouldn't be taking care of his sister's responsibilities, Mia takes his comment to offense. Peter then apologizes as he only made the comment because he is actually jealous, because his father never paid a lot of attention to him. Mia advises him to confront his dad and Peter leaves with Angel, to confront his dad. She is then seen with Peter and Angel at school.

Mia finds out Peter has been keeping in touch with Darcy and plans to visit her. Mia dumps him because she knows he still loves her.

Mia is failing English and will have to repeat the course unless she aces her final, which is a public speech. Modeling is keeping her behind on school work and is nervous because she already is a year behind. Struggling with a foot in two worlds, Mia bombs her speech. Unwilling to give up the benefits of modeling money, Mia chooses to drop out of school to model full time, but after talking with her mom she decides to go back to Degrassi, realizing that her education will ultimately get her through life as where modeling is only a temporary career.

Peter keeps trying to win Mia back, but she refuses to give in and tells him that she is always going to wonder what would have happened if Darcy never left for Kenya. Later on in the episode Peter and Sav are playing video games at Peter's place and Sav gets a phone call from his younger sister Alli. He just found out that there were cop cars at The Dot, and that's where Anya and Mia were going after shopping. Peter and Sav head to The Dot. They later find out from Blue that there is a man with a gun inside The Dot holding Holly J hostage. No one knows for sure who is in there with her. We later find out that it is Spinner and he has been shot. luckily his life has been saved by Holly J. When Anya and Mia show up to the dot Sav runs to hug Anya and he's is thankful she is alright. Peter hugs Mia and says he thought he was glad she was okay and kissed her. Mia looked puzzled and Peter confessed his love for her and said he thought he would never see her again and that she would never know how he felt about her and said that he loved her. She then smiled and kissed him back and the two had gotten back together and enjoyed their night together at the black and white dance.

In Degrassi Goes Hollywood Mia tags along on the journey to L.A. and later ends up helping fix the broken down bus with her expensive leggings, saying it was an old trick her mom taught her. She also appears with Manny and The Studz in the "Mewesical High" movie directed by Jason Mewes.