The next morning, Jess immediately launches her plan. She arrives at school with Tiffany and Dina, who is subtly squeezing her hand reassuringly as she mentally prepares herself for her task ahead. She looks around the hallway to see where Simon might be. Dina looks at Tiffany, a thousand thoughts going through her mind at once. Tiffany is still moping after the clusterfuck she is responsible for setting up. This will work really well, Dina thinks. It will make Tiffany so jealous she'll admit that she can't live without Simon. Soon she would be asking him to take her back and if he won't, Dina knows that Tiffany will simply rape him until he is mind broken.
Just a few minutes later, Simon arrives. Tiffany looks at him with yearning in her heart. She frowns as Jess walks to him, approaching the boy with really determined steps. This is upsetting her. "Hi, Simon! I heard that Tiffany broke things off with you," Jess says to him in an uncharacteristically sweet voice, one which makes Tiffany's eyes go wide. "I'm so sorry about that. She is such a big fucking moron, you know? She had you and she threw you away." Tiffany gapes in shock as she watches Jess flirt with Simon, who is standing there like some idiot.
Dina struggles hard not to burst out laughing at the horrified look on her black friend's face. The ebony hottie is clearly trying to quell the urge to grab Jess' throat and strangle her. To make things even better, Simon now replies to Jess' words. "What do you mean?" the shy boy mutters, blushing slightly from the close proximity. He has never been so physically close to a girl before, except for Tiffany, who kind of raped him. "How is she a moron for leaving me? I'm just a worthless dork, that's all."
It breaks Tiffany's heart to find out that he thinks of himself like that, and hurts her even more when she think that she is a big part of the reason he feels this way. Dina too feels quite sorry for the boy having such a low self-esteem. And then Jess says "You are really cute! If we aren't at school right now, I'd be making out with you. But only after a date, of course. Dating you would make me a very happy girl." And now Tiffany is back at wanting to choke her close friend unconscious. She knows she can do it too. She is the strongest girl in their year, even more than her friends.
Dina is back to silently chuckling at how visibly jealous Tiffany is. She is sure that pretty soon the very beautiful African American girl would be raping him again, and won't let him get away this time. Simon is now looking like a tomato. "Well, I must say I am very flattered," he says to her, sweating all over his face. "We could start hanging out and go get drinks. But I'm not ready to jump into anything right now. My heart is still, you know, healing." He looks at her very apologetically as he says this.
Tiffany is now boiling with rage as Jess giggles and rests her head on Simon's shoulder. It is now almost impossible for Dina not to start laughing but she is still managing to hold herself together. "Thank you so much for giving me a chance!" she says to him, enthusiastic. "I promise I won't disappoint you, baby boy." Jess looks up and strokes his cheek softly, and Dina now has to hold Tiffany back from heading over to beat Jess up, something that is proving to be harder than she thought. She had to get two of their passing teammates to help out and even then it was a close match, with Tiffany putting up an excellent fight against the three girls by herself.
Jess walks back towards Tiffany and Dina with a shit-eating grin on her face and squares up to Tiffany, who is still being restrained by their friends. She glares at Jess angrily. "What the fuck was that about?" Tiffany demands. "I trusted you and you started hitting on the guy you know I love? What kind of friend are you, you bitch?" The black girl has never been so pissed of before in her entire life. Especially not at one of her childhood friends. This is just something special to her.
Dina places a comforting hand on the ebony beauty's muscular shoulder. She says to her "But you were the one who told Simon you don't want him. It was you who told him you had no feelings and that it was just a game. So me and Jess decided to play a little game of our own." Tiffany looks questioningly at her, prompting Dina to continue. "If you can live without him then there is no reason for you to get so worked up. But you can't."
Tiffany reels back from being directly confronted this way. It is embarrassing since she knows they are. Jess takes this moment to press the issue further and says "By the way, I meant it when I told him he is cute." Tiffany stares at her. Jess looks at her best friend with a certain deviousness in her eyes. "I want you to be happy but you really should get Simon back soon. Otherwise I might control and end up fucking him for real. I mean it, Tiff. Get him back while you still can, because soon it would be too late."
Tiffany now understands the situation she is dealing with. She knows that her friends mean well but still feels slightly irritated at how they plotted behind her back to make her feel jealous. "What I do is up to me, not you two," she says to them with a little snarl, making Dina and Jess since. "So just mind your own business, okay?" Both of the two nod as she turns her back and walk off to her first class of the day, leaving the duo standing there by themselves like a pair of idiots.
As Tiffany stumbles off though, she can not help but wonder if her friends were correct. She knows for certain that she is in love with Simon and that he feels the same way too. But she is a damaged person who has spent years bullying the other kids as a way of acting out and getting the attention she craved. It makes her hate herself yet she's never been able to stop doing it until Simon came along. He is a much better person than she is and deserves someone who hasn't done any of the horrible deeds she is very guilty off.
But then Tiffany thinks about how cute he is and what she once said to Simon earlier. That it is Simon's own fault for being so adorable that she can not help herself. She sighs and rubs her temples to fight off the oncoming headache. It is so fucking complicated and Tiffany doesn't know how to process this. Then it becomes clear to her and she smiles. She might be a better person now than she was before but she is still selfish and that won't change. No point trying to become less self-centered because it will never work. She is going to make Simon be with her again, and she won't be letting him get away this time.
During the morning break she hurries to find him in the library. He is sitting by himself. She feels her heart breaking as she sees him all alone but then the girl realizes that this wouldn't be a problem for much longer. Tiffany sits down across from him and he looks up in surprise. "Hey, Simon," she says to him with a warm smile, almost melting his heart. He has tried to build up a wall around it after what she said and it is rapidly crumbling down, just from her saying hi to him.