Sloane finds Goldie in the restroom, crying while looking at herself in the mirror. Goldie punches the glass as it shatters all over the sink. Sloane intervenes by grabbing her hands.
“Whoa! Calm down! Don’t let Victoria get to you, she’s a Republican who literally got cancelled for taking selfies and stealing stuff at the capital riot. She’s an idiot!”
Goldie sighs as tears stream down her face, lying against the wall and slowly sliding down to the floor as she talks. “It’s not only her. It’s everyone in town. They think I’m a freak. Being the conventionally attractive teenage daughter of a woman who survived a killing spree 20 years ago is SO difficult. When will my life get better?”
Sloane looks at her, crossing her arms. “Goldie... If you don’t get up off this floor and go outside to show Victoria and the others they don’t hold any power over you, I’m gonna have to punch you like you did to that mirror, got it?”
Goldie smiles a bit and wipes her tears as she sniffs. “Thanks, Sloane.”
As the girls walk out of the restroom together, Nicholas Collins and Skye White bump into them.
“Oh hey!”, Nicholas yells out from the hallway. “Sloane and… I wanna say, Gladys?”
“It’s Goldie”, Goldie corrects Nicholas, Debby Ryan-ing her hair to the side. Sloane waves back at Nicholas, “We were just leaving. It’s uh…” Sloane looks back at a dramatically crying Goldie. “It’s been a hard day for her.”
Skye sighs, “We would know”. She stares at Nicholas before approaching Goldie, tapping on her shoulder. “I know it’s a very… difficult time for you right now. Specially with the whole frenzy about the anniversary. If you need anyone to talk to, I’m available whenever! Trust me, I know what it feels like.”
“Oh my God, that’s great! I actually really needed to talk to someone about-”, Goldie skips as Skye hears some commotion from outside.
“Okay yeah, I hear you, but I actually gotta go right now. That voice is definitely familiar. See you guys, and um, oh, here’s my number!”, Skye quickly writes her phone number on a piece of paper and hands it to Goldie and waves goodbye to the trio before exiting the diner.
“Soo… Schofield is hosting a party at his big house next week’s Saturday.”, Nicholas nods, before facing Goldie. “If you need to take your mind off of things… That could be a place to start.” Nicholas smiles, before turning to Sloane. “Besides, I’d really like for actually cool people to go. Or else they’re gonna force me to play strip beer pong with them again, and I don’t think my parents really wouldn’t like the sound of that.”
Sloane laughs, “And how are you gonna convince them to go to a party?”
Nicholas smirks, “There’s nothing suspicious about an innocent study night at the deputy’s son’s house, right?” He shrugs in a coy manner.
The two laugh as Goldie leans against the wall, wondering how she can make this all about HER, when she catches a glimpse of a masked individual watching her from far away through a window. She double checks, the person is no longer there.
Skye exits the diner, seeing Yara and Vanya in the parking lot with two cardboard signs.
“Down with the diner!” Yara shouts through a megaphone. Vanya is busy throwing eggs at the cars that are going into the drive thru.
“Hey girls!” Skye says cheerfully. “What’re you protesting this time?”
Vanya throws one last egg before turning to Skye. “The diner buys bread from an unethical wheat processing plant! We’re trying to get the truth out!”
“Oh my!” Skye exclaims worriedly. “Is the processing plant contributing to pollution and harmful work environments?”
Yara shakes their head. “Even worse! The workers are paid to chase away the poor, starving bunnies that try to eat the wheat!” She holds the megaphone up, yelling at incoming customers, “DOWN WITH THE MOTHERFUCKING DINER!”
Skye covers her ears. “Ah!! Maybe do that when I’m not directly in front of the megaphone?”
Yara giggles. “Oops.” Suddenly, their face gets serious as she sees Spencer in the corner of the diner, handing a stash of Marijuana to other students.
Yara charges at Spencer, holding her megaphone.
“Greensburg! What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
Spencer rolls their eyes, defeated. “Look, you almost got me expelled from school when you almost got me expelled for giving K to that Schofield kid. I let you do your thing, I’ll do mine.”
“And you don’t see an ethical problem with selling marijuana to a bunch of other students?”
“Your friend is literally throwing eggs at the Dickinsons right now. How ethical is that?”, Spencer points to Vanya and the Dickinsons engaging in an egg fight. Yara grimaces before turning around, seeing Phoenix walk up. He half-heartedly waves at Yara.
“Not to worry. I’ll take over from here”, Phoenix reassures Yara, who walks away and runs up to Vanya to stop the egg fight currently going on outside the diner. Phoenix turns to Spencer.
“There’s a party next week. Could be good for your, uh, business”, Phoenix nods, before Spencer narrows his eyes.
“Dude, I barely know you. Do you, like, want something? Why are you even talking to me?”
Phoenix stands frozen, before handing Spencer a dollar note. Spencer hands Phoenix a stash, before Alexander knocks Phoenix down accidentally, spilling the stash all over the floor!
“Whoa!! My bad dude! Not like you were gonna need that anyways. Hey dude, you got any K?”
Phoenix recollects himself and punches Alexander to the ground, before running off.as a confused Alexander lays on the ground, his nose bleeding.
“S-Someone needs to take a chill pill, oww!!”
The commotion outside the diner attracts everyone, as Pippa Cherry grabs her stuff and walks out of the diner, waving at passersby.
