Unmasking and Pulling the Last Straws

By now, things are finally reaching a climactic point.

Inside that locker room, one lone girl stood tall in front of her quivering transgressors, an air of deterring dominance seeping through her equanimous surface.

It's as if none of their displays of enmity and umbrage has really affected her.

It's as if she has them dancing on the palm of her hands even from the very beginning.

After Caroline's confession, everyone isn't sure what to expect from Eli anymore - either she'll fulfill her part of the deal or pull another underhanded stunt. But then again, these schemers aren't that naive to not know how to weigh out those options and predict the consequences.

They're not that naive to believe that she'd just erase their voice record for something as simple as revealing the identity of the culprit behind the rumors. Going by how composed she was, they sense that she definitely has something up her sleeves.