Books By Bullets: All Your Twisted Secrets | Diana Urban
- lifeisbella
- Sep 20, 2020
- 22 min read
This Books By Bullets (BBB) post is for All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban. The main goal of BBB is to provide a bulleted summary of the plot points that occur in the book. I will also include a list of other information such as characters, trigger warnings, setting and representation. The below information is intended for people who have already read the book and need a refresher. The trigger warnings and list of characters may be useful to people who are in the process of reading the book or are thinking of reading the book, but I just want to make sure that you are wary of potential spoilers below.
LIST OF CHARACTERS
Amber Prescott: Main character. 17 year old girl. Red curls. Musician.
Robbie Nelson: Amber's boyfriend. Baseball jock. Gray eyes. Dimples.
Diego Martin: Black hair. Copper eyes. Smart. Valedictorian and entrepreneur. Amber’s childhood friend.
Sasha Harris: Chestnut hair. Loose waves. Cheer captain and class president. Amber's current best friend.
Mittens: Amber's cat. White fur
Mom: Amber’s mother. Red straight hair. Mom bob.
Dad: Amber’s dad.
Grandma Betty: Amber’s grandmother.
Mr. Torrente: Amber's music teacher
Priya Gupta: Doe eyes. Long, black hair. Amber’s former best friend.
Scott Coleman: Stoner kid. Dark, curly hair.
Amy: Sasha's friend. Shoulder length blonde hair.
Maria: Sasha's friend. Brunette ringlets.
Maggie: Amber's dead sister. 4 years older than Amber. Brown hair.
Zane Carter: Green eyes. Shaggy, chestnut hair. Defined cheekbones.
David Thurston: Priya’s favorite musician.
Asher: Drama club kid. Plays Romeo.
Dan: Drama club kid.
Mrs. Burr: Librarian.
Mrs. Harris: Sasha's mom.
Becky Wallace: Outcast classmate. Amber’s former friend.
Phil Pratt: Outcast classmate. Greasy, brown hair.
Jason Goding: Classmate. Sasha’s class president opponent. In orchestra.
Amanda
Mrs. Tanner: Biology teacher.
Mr. Garcia: School security guard.
Mr. Turner: School security guard.
Ms. Cheryl Anderson: Principal's secretary.
Mrs. Lanish: Trigonometry teacher.
Mr. Baskin
Lisa: Amy's girlfriend.
Mr. Greenwood: Physics teacher.
Natalie: Sasha's big sister.
The above list includes all named characters in the book. Characters are listed in order of appearance. Bolded characters are important/main characters. Generally, characters get less important as you go down the list. If there is little or no description, these can also be assumed to be relatively unimportant characters.
SETTING
Upstate New York
The Chesterfield: Upscale restaurant owned by Maria’s parents.
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Bullying. 4
Main theme of the story, discussed frequently. Multiple people are bullied. Some situations have harsh repercussions.
Suicide. 5
Graphic depiction and retelling of suicide. Main theme of the story, discussed semi-frequently.
Mental health/depression/PTSD. 4
Depression that results from bullying and leads to suicide. Mental health of the family following the suicide is also discussed. Main theme of the story.
Death. 3
A few deaths. Violent and graphic depictions.
Needles. 2
Needles present, and persistent threat of its use. One scene where it is used.
Stabbing. 2
One scene. Semi-graphic retelling.
Guns/school shooting. 2
Close-call/false alarm
Bombs. 1
Bomb present, and persistent threat of its use.
Domestic abuse. 1
One side character’s abusive family relationships are revealed. Not too many graphic details are provided.
Drug addiction. 1
Some characters use and are addicted to drugs. Relatively minor part of the story.
REPRESENTATION
Lesbian couple (between two minor, side characters)
Illness: Non-diabetic hypoglycemia
PLOT
Prologue
Amber Prescott has been selected for a scholarship for her musical talents and contribution to the community. She is invited to a dinner with the mayor and the other 5 scholarship recipients
Robbie is Amber's boyfriend but they're on shaky ground. Amber and Diego's friendship is turning into something else. Diego and Robbie are also invited to the scholarship dinner. Amber needs to get through the dinner without revealing her relationship status to each of the boys.
There’s only a few months left of high school.
Amber gets dressed and Robbie picks her up.
They’ve been having fights because Robbie wants Amber to follow him to college and give up on the music schools she wants to go to. He gives her a musical note charm bracelet and asks if she got into his school yet. She has gotten into that school, but she lies to Robbie and says she doesn't know yet.
Robbie and Amber arrive. The other scholarship recipients trickle in. Sasha, Amber’s current best friend arrives. Then Amber’s crush, Diego, arrives. Then Amber’s former best friend, Priya, and Scott, the stoner kid, show up.
The five teenagers get locked in the room. They realize no one else is coming. They realize the food is already on the table. They lift the lids off of the food trays. In one of them, there is a syringe with botulinum toxin and a bomb with an hour countdown. Included is a note that said they have to choose someone to die or they will all die.
1 Year, 1 Month Ago January of Junior Year
Amber wants to go to college for film scoring. As her admissions project, she wants to compose the score for the school play. This means she'll have to talk to Sasha.
Amber has a sister, Maggie, who died a few years ago. There are vague references to some kind of suicide/bullying situation.
Amber and Priya talk to Sasha and her squad about scoring the music for the play. We find out that Sasha used to be really good at gymnastics but broke her leg in a car accident. She's fine now, but will never be able to get back to the gymnastics level she was at previously. Priya also did a little bit of gymnastics.
Sasha agrees to let Amber score the play, but she says she'll have to convince the rest of the drama club. Sasha says she'll invite the drama club to the party that Friday where Amber can talk to them about the play music. Sasha asks Priya and Amber to bring booze to loosen the drama club up.
59 Minutes Left
The five teens are scared. Some of them think it's a prank. They try to open the door and call or text someone but there's no reception.
1 Year 1 Month Ago January of Junior Year
It’s Friday night, the night of the party. Amber and Priya are going to steal Amber's parents liquor. Amber's parents don't use it anymore and won't notice that it's missing. One night after Maggie died, Amber's dad got blackout drunk and had to get his stomach pumped.
We find out Priya has non-diabetic hypoglycemia.
They steal the liquor and go to the party. It turns out that most of the drama club couldn't make it to the party. Sasha still welcomes Amber and Priya to the party.
57 Minutes Left
The group starts thinking it could be a test, like an escape room. They start looking for clues.
They also realize that no one signed the bottom of their invitations. Also this scholarship is usually given out until May.
They debate whether the bomb and syringe are real.
1 Year Ago February of Junior Year
Sasha asked Amber to bring booze to the school dance where the drama club will be. Amber can talk to the drama club about the play at the dance. Amber plans to sneak in through the back to get past security. She runs into Diego.
Amber and Diego's dads used to work together. They co-founded a consulting firm together. Amber and Diego used to be childhood friends. He was her first crush.
Amber's dad was struggling at work right after Maggie died. Diego's dad was also slacking, for no good reason. Then Amber and her dad saw Diego and his dad on Bid or Bust (a TV show like Shark Tank).
We find out Diego is adopted.
Diego and his dad get their deal on the show and the dad quits the consulting firm the next day. Amber's dad couldn't find anyone to replace him. The business collapsed and Amber never talked to Diego after that.
Diego and Amber walk into the dance together. They chat for a bit and take a picture together. Priya steals Amber away.
The drama club is in the band room. They pass drinks around and some members of the group peer pressure Priya to drink. Amber distracts them by playing piano. They all crowd around her asking her to play things. Sasha brings up Romeo and Juliet and Amber doing the music scoring. They're in the middle of discussing this when a teacher comes in. They all hide. Sasha throws something to distract the teacher while they run away.
53 Minutes Left
Robbie plays with the syringe to see if it's real. Diego says not to mess with it because if it is real, the toxin is so potent it could affect everyone through the air. The group decides that they have to choose someone to die.
11 Months Ago February of Junior Year
Amber goes over to Sasha’s to work on the play music. Amber, Robbie and Sasha end up playing Fortnite. Sasha's mom comes home early and yells at Sasha for not studying. Amber's mom compares Amber to her perfect sister. Sasha is upset and tells Robbie and Amber to leave. Robbie and Amber chat outside for a little bit.
51 Minutes Left
The group starts looking for ways out of the room again. They try to pick locks and open the windows. Scott falls while trying to break the glass of one of the windows.
10 Months, 2 Weeks Ago March of Junior Year
The whole junior class was invited to Maria's 17th birthday party at a restaurant Maria's parents own, the Chesterfield. Amber and Priya look for their new friends. Priya says that twenty minutes ago Sasha posted about getting ready. She goes to show Amber, but Amber gets PTSD about Maggie. She gets triggered whenever she sees social media.
Amber and Priya run into Robbie and Zane. Robbie takes Amber to a quiet dining room off to the side. He tells her that he got Sasha to listen to the music tracks, and that she agreed to do Romeo and Juliet. Robbie tells Amber how baseball is his dream. His brothers are really good baseball players. One is playing college baseball, one is playing professionally. He asks if Amber has any siblings. She says no.
Maggie died when Amber was in eighth grade. Amber's new friends went to a different middle school and don't know about this situation. Amber doesn't want to tell them about it because they'll treat her differently.
Robbie and Amber make out in the dining room. The door locks them in. Maria comes and unlocks it and says that the door locks on it's own.
Priya comes in, and Amber tells her that she made out with Robbie. Priya is trying to hit it off with Zane but she's shy. Amber encourages her to be herself.
In the main room, Sasha starts making fun of Becky. Priya plays along and insults Becky's friend, Phil.
Amber changes the subject back to the play. Sasha says that they'll have to do Romeo and Juliet for the winter play. Amber is disappointed because she needed to submit it with her college applications. It will be close for her to be able to meet the deadline.
48 Minutes Left
Scott fell and dislocated his ankle.
They try to move the bars off the windows. They experiment to see if they can get cell signal by sticking the phone out the window. None of it works.
We find out Sasha and Zane are together now.
The room is getting really hot.
9 Months Ago April of Junior Year
Amber stayed up all night working on Romeo and Juliet music. Sasha asks Amber to put up her class president fliers for her because she's super busy. There's also a flier smearing her opponent, Jason, with lies. Amber says she doesn't want to help spread fake news. She throws out the fliers about Jason.
Scott has asked out Priya at least once a semester since eighth grade. She says she can't date him because he's a stoner.
Sasha wants to study with Amber and Priya that night. Amber is a worn out from all the studying and socializing lately.
Priya is a little upset with Sasha. She thinks Sasha has been condescending toward her. Sasha has been sidelining Priya during cheer stuff. Amber makes excuses for Sasha, and Priya feels a little better.
Priya steals biology test answers from the teacher's desk. She was going to take pictures of the answers, but the janitor walked in and she had to take the whole envelope. She was going to get the answers for Sasha since she was stressing about the biology test. Now Priya has to return it but the teacher has been in her class all day. Priya and Amber come up with a plan to return the test answers. Amber distracts the teacher by asking for help while Priya puts the envelope back on her desk. They get away with it, but Diego might have seen them.
44 Minutes Left
The group finds a camera watching them. This makes them think that this isn't a prank because the people behind the camera would have seen Scott fall. If it was a prank they would have called it off to take Scott to a hospital.
The group tries to think of who it could be. It has to be someone that would hate all of them. Robbie says he can think of someone that wants Amber dead.
9 Months Ago May of Junior Year
Robbie asks Amber out on a date. She says yes.
The girl squad comes over and they talk about Robbie asking Amber on a date. Sasha says she's seeing someone on the down low. Amber mentions making her and Robbie's date a double date with Priya and Zane. Sasha says Priya doesn't have time for a date because she needs to practice stunts for cheer.
While they're talking, Amber sees Phil (who has the locker next to her) has a gun in his backpack. She doesn't tell the girls what she saw. She abruptly leaves to go tell the security guards. She tells them. They call for back up and tell Amber to leave the school.
39 Minutes Left
Robbie thinks Phil might have locked them in the room because of the gun situation. The security guards confiscated the gun privately. Amber was shaken up about it so she told Sasha who told Maria and Amy and it eventually spread through the whole school that Amber prevented a school shooting.
Amber gets mad at Sasha that she bullied Phil.
The gun that Phil brought to school was just a BB gun.
Amber knows why he actually brought the gun. She has to tell the group the truth.
7 Months Ago July After Junior Year
Amber is working on her music again. Her dad sneaks up on her. This reminds her of the last time she saw Maggie.
She flashes back to a time when she was working on music and Maggie snuck up on her. Amber got mad at Maggie for interrupting.
Amber and Maggie used to be best friends, but in the past year Maggie had become sulky and snarky, and they didn't hang out much anymore. Maggie gives Grandma Betty's amethyst bracelet to Amber.
Maggie says she's not going to go to prom. Amber asks if she wants to hang out, Maggie says no because she can tell Amber wants to work on her music.
The dad was coming to tell Amber that someone was at the door for her. Amber goes to the door and Robbie is there with a rose. He's going to take her to the carnival for her birthday. Priya usually takes Amber to the carnival on her birthday, but Priya is in India and can't do it this year. She texted Robbie to do it for her this year.
Amber had cancelled her date with Robbie after the Phil situation because she was so shaken up. She has still been texting Robbie though.
They go to the carnival. Robbie wins a game and gets her a prize.
At the carnival, they keep running into Becky and her little brother. Amber tries to talk to her, but Becky is mad about the Phil situation. Becky says Amber didn't think to ask him why he had a gun, and now he's expelled and trapped at home. She says Phil would never hurt anyone. Becky walks away.
38 Minutes Left
Amber tells the group that Phil had the gun to protect him and his mom from his abusive father. The group speculates whether that's even true. Amber says it is true because she told the guidance counselor about Phil's abusive household and now Phil lives with his aunt.
Amber confronts Robbie about how he used to push Phil around.
The group thinks maybe it was Becky that trapped them in the room. She hates Amber for busting Phil, and she hates Robbie for taking Amber's side.
6 Months Ago August Before Senior Year
At the end of summer break, Priya and Amber meet up at a diner to catch up. Sasha comes and rudely kicks Priya out. Sasha wants to talk to Amber about the play. Sasha tells Amber that the drama club decided they will only do Romeo & Juliet with the original score if they can add some musical numbers in. Amber is shocked and doesn't want to do it, but Sasha says it's the only way they'll do Romeo & Juliet at all. Amber agrees.
36 Minutes Left
The group talks about whether Becky has reasons to kill them. Sasha made fun of Becky. Priya and Amber used to be friends with Becky but ditched her.
The group asks Scott if Becky hates him. He says he can't think of anything.
4 Months, 1 Week Ago September of Senior Year
Amber has had no time between hanging out with Robbie, Sasha, and Priya and composing her music. She needs to finish one of her songs so is avoiding Priya.
She hides out in a stairwell in the school. Scott finds her there and hangs out with her while he smokes. He says that Sasha takes advantage of Amber and implies that Sasha is hiding something.
35 Minutes Left
The group starts bringing up that Scott is the outsider here. Sasha starts escalating the situation against Scott. She starts saying they should kill him. Amber knows why she wants to kill him--because he knows her secret. Amber says that killing him won't keep Amber's secret from getting out because she knows it too.
3 Months, 3 Weeks Ago October of Senior Year
Amber and Robbie were supposed to go to the diner to kill some time before his game. They never left the high school parking lot. They just made out and talked. They talk about what he'll do if baseball doesn't work out and why he likes baseball so much.
Scott texts Amber to meet him at school to catch Sasha doing her secret thing. She goes back to the school looking for Scott. She runs into Diego, and they talk for a bit.
Amber finds Sasha by the bleachers. Sasha sees her and comes towards her. Scott comes out of the bleachers too. Amber asks if Sasha was hooking up with Scott. Sasha says no, she likes Zane. Amber wonders why she was with Scott then. She thinks it could be for drugs.
34 Minutes Left
Amber tells the group that Sasha's been buying drugs from Scott. Sasha admits it. She says she needed them to deal with the stress and to manage her busy schedule. Scott reveals that he was selling her Ritalin instead of speed like she thought she was getting.
Sasha keeps threatening to kill Scott with the syringe.
3 Months, 2 Weeks Ago October of Senior Year
Amber, Priya and Sasha have a study session. Sasha calls Priya fat (as a backhanded compliment). Sasha leaves to go to the bathroom. Amber debates whether she should tell Priya that Sasha likes Zane.
Sasha has been gone awhile so Amber goes after her. She was in Maggie's room. Sasha asks whose room it is. Amber gets PTSD that Sasha is standing in the spot that Maggie died. We find out that Maggie took pills and died there while Amber tried to call 911. Amber gets Sasha to leave the room and go back to the basement. Sasha is mad that Amber never told her she had a sister. Amber lies and says it's just because her sister is never around. Sasha storms out.
32 Minutes Left
The group debates more about who locked them in the room. They try thinking of more people that hate them.
Diego says it could be Amber's dad since he hates him.
3 Months, 1 Week Ago October of Senior Year
Amber’s dad takes her to a college fair. She's set on going to private schools with good music programs. He encourages her to at least consider some of the cheaper state schools. She says she wants to follow her dreams. She needs to go to her dream schools to make connections with Hollywood. Her dad talks about how he doesn't want her to go into massive debt. He tells her how his debt combined with the business failure made it really hard for him. He doesn't want that for Amber.
Amber runs into Diego. They talk about college. Amber tells Diego that he's been ignoring her. He says he didn't. She says he did. Amber's dad comes and scares him off.
30 Minutes Left
The group comes to the conclusion that it probably wasn't Amber's dad (or any of their parents) that locked them in the room. They go around again and ask if anyone has any enemies.
Amber suggests Sasha must have enemies because she's so popular and perfect. Scott says Sasha uses people’s secrets against them. He also says that Amber hates him too and called him a creep. Then he passes out.
3 Months Ago November of Senior Year
Robbie and Amber go on a double date with Zane and Priya.
Zane is running late so Robbie and Amber talk outside. They talk about college. This eventually gets Amber to tell him about Maggie. He puts it together that the girl who killed herself a few years ago is her sister.
Zane and Priya get to the restaurant, and they go in. Zane explains that his brother has a drug problem. He says he doesn't want to talk about it, but they keep bringing it up so he gets mad. He shuts down and doesn't really talk during the date.
Scott is their server. Priya leaves to go to the bathroom. She's gone for a while so Amber goes to check on her and finds her talking to Scott. Amber gets Priya to go back to the table, and Amber tells Scott to leave her and her friends alone because he's a drug dealer creep.
29 Minutes Left
Scott isn't feeling well so they try to give him water.
The group tries to think of something to do with the bomb, like put it in the corner or in the fireplace. Diego shoots everything down and says that won't work.
2 Months, 3 Weeks Ago November of Senior Year
Amber’s trying to get homework done right before it's due. She's been busy with Romeo and Juliet stuff and has been neglecting her school work. Diego sits next to her and apologizes for never texting her back after Bid or Bust. He felt bad talking to her after making his dad quit the company to help with his entrepreneur project. Amber had thought that Diego thought he was better than her, but really he was just guilty.
They almost kiss
27 Minutes Left
They decide to put the bomb in the fake fireplace. They think maybe the bomb will blow the top out, and the smoke will be able to escape. They stack drawers to elevate the bomb in the fireplace. Robbie and Diego move the bomb to the fireplace.
Priya has been showing signs that she's not feeling well. Priya and Amber go to help move the bomb but Sasha says that Priya shouldn't help because she could mess them up. Priya gets mad and says if anyone should die it should be Sasha.
2 Months, 2 Weeks Ago November of Senior Year
Amber attends one of Robbie's games because it's an important game with college scouts coming. The cheer squad is also there. Amber hears Sasha yelling at Priya. Sasha and Priya go behind the bleachers and Amber yells at Priya, Amber comes down and tries to defend Priya.
After the game Sasha acts like nothing happened and invites Sasha and Priya to Zane's after party. She tells everyone she's been hooking up with Zane and now they're officially dating. It comes up that Sasha is still a virgin. She's insecure about it so she makes everyone else feel bad.
They get to the party and Sasha kisses Zane immediately. Priya storms off. Amber goes to Priya, but Priya is mostly upset that it seemed like Amber took Sasha's side at the game. Amber has also been so self absorbed lately that she didn't notice that Priya doesn't even like Zane anymore.
24 Minutes Left
Sasha and Priya argue that Priya just threatened Sasha. Amber de-escalates the situation and says the room is just driving them all crazy. She says they need to focus on finding a solution to getting out of there.
Robbie suggests deciding on a person to kill. Sasha suggests killing Scott again. She is set on killing him because he still knows more secrets about her. Scott says Sasha tried to blackmail him. He told Sasha about his addict, deadbeat dad and then she threatened to tell his secret if he didn't sell her meth. This is why he had to sell her the Ritalin.
Priya collapses.
2 Months Ago December of Senior Year
Priya doesn't show up at school. She won't answer the door to her house. Amber finds out that she had a cheer accident the day before. The girl squad is very mean about it.
Robbie got a scholarship to Georgia Tech and encourages Amber to come to school with him, even though there's no music program there.
Amber shows up at Priya’s house again. She lets her in this time. Priya has stitches and broken teeth. She friend breaks up with her because she's been choosing Sasha and the play over her.
22 Minutes Left
Priya wakes up. Amber gets a Snickers bar from Diego's backpack. In his backpack she finds the picture of the two of them from the dance. Priya eats the candy bar and her and Amber make up. Amber apologizes and says she'll never choose Sasha over her again.
The group starts turning on Sasha since she was the first one to start suggesting people to kill. She's like this in normal life as well. Diego says that Sasha has been sabotaging him in school.
1 Month, 3 Weeks Ago December of Senior Year
Robbie and Amber briefly talk about the college situation. It's not going well.
They’re in physics class. Amber and Sasha are usually partners. They have to do an extra credit experiment. On this day, the teacher switches the partners so this time Amber is paired with Diego. Sasha tells her to sabotage the experiment so she can get the extra points over Diego. Amber says no. She's not going to sabotage her own grade for Sasha. Diego overheard and doesn't let Amber help because he thinks she's going to sabotage him. He says he wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt after he saw her and Priya returning the biology test answers. He put the pieces together that they must have given the answers to Sasha. Now it's a pattern, so he doesn't trust Amber. He says Amber's friends don't care about her.
18 Minutes Left
The group confronts Sasha about the sabotaging. They talk about the situations with Diego and Scott, and how she tried to get Amber to post fliers that spread lies about Sasha's competition for class president.
They decide to pick someone to kill and wait to kill them until the last few minutes before the bomb goes off.
1 Month, 2 Weeks Ago December of Senior Year
It’s the night of the play. They only have this one night to record the play in time to submit it with Amber's applications.
They have pre-show speeches/huddles. Asher, one of the drama club kids, says it's a good thing the musical songs worked out. He says the drama club was worried once Sasha said Amber wanted to add original musical numbers. Sasha had told Amber that the drama kids demanded the musical numbers. It becomes clear that Sasha wanted the musical songs added in to let her show off more as the main actress.
Amber wanted to submit a scene during the climax of the show for her college applications. Sasha messes the scene up on purpose.
17 Minutes Left
The group starts talking about who they should choose. They start comparing family lives and future plans. Amber says you can't value one's life over another's. She yells at Robbie that he only cares for himself.
Sasha rushes towards Amber with the needle.
1 Month, 2 Weeks Ago December of Senior Year
Amber and Robbie talk at school. Robbie didn't give her as much attention at her play as she gives him during his games. They also argue more about college. He refuses to acknowledge any other option other than her following him to his school.
They separate for class. Amber runs into Diego while crying. He comforts her, and they almost kiss. He also gives her a recording of the play. He had been recording the dress rehearsals so he has a performance where Sasha didn't mess up.
16 Minutes Left
Sasha was about to get Amber with the syringe but doesn't go through with it. Sasha threatens Diego with the syringe, and Amber yells for her not to. This gives it away that Amber likes Diego as more than a friend. She says they'll have that conversation later, but now they need to focus on getting out of the room.
They decide to choose the person to die based on rock paper scissors. Some of them think people will cheat so they decide to draw straws. Priya and Amber make up. Everyone gets the long straw. It's down to Scott and Amber.
18 Days Ago January of Senior Year
Amber bikes home from school and her mom is waiting on the front porch with a thick envelope from USC. Amber says she found out she got in to USC in an email she received last week. She applied early decision which means it's binding that she has to go to USC.
They talk about Maggie and how she got into Yale with a full scholarship. Amber says Maggie never got to decide what her dreams were because "they killed her." Amber's mom says no, Maggie was sick already.
Amber's dad was eavesdropping and says he just wants Amber to be herself.
13 Minutes Left
Scott and Amber both draw long sticks. It turns out Priya drew the short stick but switched it out with one of the long ones with one of her magic trick skills. The group gets mad at her for cheating. Robbie and Sasha want to kill Priya since she drew the short stick and because she lied about it.
Amber comes up with an idea to fake a death for the camera.
Robbie gets the syringe and goes at Priya. Then he goes at Diego. Amber distracts everyone while she gets her pepper spray. She says that Robbie is playing into what they want. They want them to turn in monsters. Robbie puts the syringe down. Amber and Sasha lunge for the syringe.
14 Days Ago January of Senior Year
Sasha confronts Amber in the library. Amber has been avoiding Sasha since the play. Amber wants to get Sasha to apologize to Priya. She thinks this might convince Priya to be her friend again. Sasha doesn't take responsibility for what she did.
Maria comes to the library and talks about how she's going on a cruise soon.
Amber realizes what Sasha turned her into. Amber has also become manipulative. Amber also thinks back on all the times that Sasha has manipulated her since they became friends, like how she never invited the drama club to the party. And how the drama club kids don't drink so when Sasha asked Amber to bring booze, it was just for her.
9 Minutes Left
Amber gets to the syringe first. Amber questions Sasha about why she's such a bad person. Sasha says after her car accident she lost everything she worked for (gymnastics and the Olympics). She had to focus on being good at everything, because when she put all her eggs in one basket that didn't work out for her. Now she'll do anything it takes to be the best even if that means trampling people along the way.
Amber wants to try her idea of fake killing someone. They're going to fake kill Scott. Sasha ruins it by trying to choke Scott.
They all get mad at Sasha again because from the very beginning she has been trying to take the easy route and just kill someone.
Amber lectures Sasha about how Maggie died by being bullied. When Amber was with Maggie in her final moments she saw her Facebook timeline where Natasha Jane was bullying Maggie. Maria mentioned Sasha's sister, Nat, recently in the library and then Amber put it together that Sasha's sister was the one who bullied Maggie. We find out Sasha's real name is Natasha and she changed her profile name to Natasha Jane for a while, so it was actually her that bullied Maggie.
The timer has a minute left. Scott says he'll kill Sasha. He presses the needle into her and presses the plunger. The liquid leaks everywhere. It turns out the needle was retractable. They all celebrate that it was a prank. Diego is skeptical because the bomb timer is still going. Sasha isn't going to take that chance. She gets a piece of wood and hits Amber. She's about to strike again when Priya tackles her. They struggle a bit and Priya stabs her with a piece of glass.
5 Seconds Left
The bomb counts down to zero, and nothing happens.
Priya apologizes. She says she had to stab Sasha because she was about to kill Amber. Sasha apologizes and tries to excuse her past behavior. She dies. Diego messes with the bomb and finds out it's fake.
Someone comes into the restaurant. They unlock the door. They have a cupcake delivery. The note inside says "Congratulations, now you all know who you really are."
4 Hours Ago
We find out Amber is the one that set everything up. She bought the food. She knew the code to get in to the restaurant from when she helped Maria sneak booze out of the restaurant. She set up the bomb and syringe. She figured out how to close the door from the inside and set up the cupcake delivery. She moved all the sharp stuff out of the room so no one would get hurt. She wanted to make Sasha see the effect she's had on everyone. She wanted Robbie to see that his dreams weren't more valuable than hers. She wanted Diego to stop letting people take advantage of him. She wanted Scott to learn not enable Sasha. She wanted to show Priya that she'd stand up for her. She wanted to get Sasha to apologize and see what a bully she was.
35 Minutes Later
The police come. They question Priya. Sasha is dead. Amber and Robbie broke up. Amber is guilty that Sasha died. Diego tries to console her that it's not her fault. Priya is about to be taken to the hospital, but Amber tells Diego and Priya that it was her that locked them in the room. She says she's going to confess to the police. They try to tell her there's no point in confessing. They understand she didn't mean to seriously hurt anyone. Amber insists she's going to confess. She needs to take responsibility for her actions, even if it was an accident.
The above information is based on my memory, notes and interpretation of the story. It's definitely not perfect, so let me know if you have any proposed edits to this BBB post.
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