Tiffany speaks with Holly

“I know this might be a bit of a shock, I understand that,” Tiffany said slowly and carefully.

The brunette was sitting opposite a strikingly beautiful blonde girl, in front of them was Tiffany’s phone with the picture of Holly passed out while Dixon was on top of her.

Tiffany waited for Holly’s response, worried about the mental toll this was going to take on her. She seemed fairly calm for what she was viewing. Tiffany was expecting her to freak out or cry but their were no tears in sight, just a woman deep in thought.

“Where did you get these?” she asked the brunette.

“A friend of mine was sent these and he passed it on to me, hoping I could find you,” she explained.

“I don’t want to see it ever again and I don’t want you showing anyone,” Holly snapped at her a little abruptly.

Tiffany was conceded for the girl, she tried to help by continuing their discussion, “Of course I won’t show anyone but would you want to…”

“Drop it!” the blonde senior suddenly said, a look of anger on her face.

Tiffany was a little scared to reply, she didn’t expect that sort of reaction.

“Please… drop it,” she said again.

It wasn’t the reaction she was anticipating, Tiffany nodded in response.

Holly then got out of her chair, “I know you’re just trying to help but please… stay out of this.”

The blonde exited the room and Tiffany quickly took her phone back, getting out of the screenshot. This didn’t go down well at all for the East Hall RA. With her position, she wanted to be able to protect her fellow female peers but what could she do if they weren’t willing to accept her help.

***

The next day, Tiffany met up with Mark in the morning, both grabbing a coffee together.

It almost seemed a little odd to be sitting here with her at what was the first coffee place on campus that Tiffany ever brought Mark to. Back when he was a Freshman and still unaware of just how crazy things would get over his time in college.

Tiffany took a sip from her almond latte before giving Mark some bad news, “So I spoke with Holly yesterday.”

“Yeah?”

“It didn’t go down great,” she replied honestly, “She didn’t want to see it, she didn’t want to speak to me about it and she certainly wasn’t interested in taking anything further.”

Mark sighed, “Dang, sounds just like how Maple is handling this right now, doesn’t want to speak to the police, why wont they talk??”

“It’s not that simple,” Tiffany responded, “I know it’s hard to put yourself in their shoes but if they go to the police and nothing is done, it only makes everything a lot worse for them.”

“But with that photo, that’s proof isn’t it?” Mark asked her.

“Sure I guess so, I don’t know her very well though, it felt like she was worried, almost as if she was being blackmailed by them, worried about the consequences going forward,” Tiffany spoke.

It felt like they were hitting another dead end, Mark was worried that Dixon would never face the consequences of his actions.

“Do you think there’s others then? Others involved, I mean somebody had to at least take the photo of Dixon,” Tiffany asked him.

“Probably, he has his boys, he’s always hanging around Derek Marotta and that Z dude knows what he did to Maple,” Mark explained.

Tiffany looked even more concerned than what she did when she started speaking about the fallout from the Holly conversation. She sighed and tried to drink more of her latte.

“What do we do Tiff?” Mark asked his ex.

She thought a bit longer before answering, “I think we need some help on this, I could probably set up a private meeting somewhere for us and a few other trustful people to work out what we can do here.”

The idea was something he hadn’t considered, the involvement of too many was a bit of a concern. But with some of their closest friends, there wasn’t too much that could go wrong.

“Okay, I’m all on board for this, are you sure you have the time for all of this with how busy you are?” he asked, knowing her busy schedule, approaching the second half of her final semester at college.

She nodded confidently, “Yeah and even if I didn’t, this is just too important to ignore, we’ve got to do something about this, we just have to.”