Hypegirl 101

♡April 18, 2024♡

I

Splitting today's entry in 2, starting off with the funny stuff. Just like yesterday, Bloom was acting silly at the beginning of the day. He told a guy that his DNA was inside him.

Fast forward to 3rd period and I got assigned to work with Bloom's best friend. Both of them had multiple labels made for them. Two of them matched, but the best friend had a... special one made for him. He asked me if I wanted to see because he knew I'd think it was funny. I said yeah and he pulled it out of his computer case. It read, "Face down, a$$ up." So philosophical.

II

⚠Mentions of S3xűāl Hāŕŕāssment⚠

All of what I'm about to say regarding accusations of s3xűāl hāŕŕāssment is alleged and I will 100% be updating as more possibilities and potential scenarios open up. I feel a little betrayed right now even though I'm staying neutral.

So, let me set the scene. Today was the final musical rehearsal before opening night. I expected this to be like the previous rehearsals this week: stressful, but nothing too dramatic since we should all be focusing on work. Boy, oh boy was I so wrong.

At the very beginning, the atmosphere was understandably a little tense. I didn't think this was out of the ordinary until some of the boys started talking. For background, B has 3 friends who are all doing musical tech jobs. These 3 guys and B all started going around calling P "*insert P's real name* the P3rv3rt." They did this both to his face and behind his back.

I was really confused, so I asked P directly, who said they were probably offended and weirded out by him hanging out with a bunch of girls. As someone who is strongly against the recent "guys with girl best friends are red flags" narrative, since I have guy best friends myself including B, I was a little upset. This "bunch of girls" references a friend group of his colloquially referred to as "*P's* 3 girlfriends." This includes his actual girlfriend, Marianne, his female best friend, who is aroace might I add, and Britney's best friend, who is genderfluid.

I  thought it was odd for the guys to point something that mundane out with a label as strong as "p3rv3rt", but I sort of brushed that off. Shortly after this, I went into the choir classroom to get water. Cast members hang out in there all the time, so it wasn't surprising to see that there were people in there. Most of them left while I was in there, except a friend of mine who wanted to talk to me about something. Well I didn't know that in the moment, but she clearly wanted to talk to me. She asked me if I knew "what *P* did" and I said no. Come to find out, the guys weren't upset about the "3 girlfriends" at all. Not even close, but something much worse.

She leaned against my ear and began whispering the tale of what went down. According to the guys, P was looking into the girl's quick-change room while they were changing when the curtain covering them up wasn't secure. It's worth noting that this room is backstage in an area where loads of people are constantly present. But back to this story, the guys claimed that they caught him peeping in there yesterday. They told teachers and everything.

M

y heart sank after she told me everything. I was in absolute shock and disbelief to a level I can't quite describe. I was one of the only people that gave him a chance as a friend, especially when he had a crush on me and a sexuality crisis, then he goes ahead and does this. Well, that's just what people are saying. There's no guarantee that he actually did that or did it intentionally, and I'm staying neutral since I didn't see it with my own eyes. But even the possibility that he could've done that felt like a betrayal.

Shortly after this, the directors got everyone on stage. Although this was to start the first number in the musical, she had announcements to make too. One of those announcements directly addressed the situation with P. She didn't say any names, but by this point everyone knew what the guys were saying and that it was P. She basically called him out and said she'd kick him out if it happened again.

I know these allegations weren't directed at me, but I felt humiliated. I never even used the quick-change room, but I still felt humiliated. I talk to P every day and consider him a friend. He's called me a great friend before and we had a nice friendship despite his bad reputation. I felt like this was a massive slap in my face. Now, do I believe he did it? Again, I'm neutral so that's neither a yes nor a no.

I only started feeling better after I really stopped and pondered my neutrality. There's a possibility that the situation was a misunderstanding or even that the guys lied. One of those guys lied a couple months ago about D doing disgusting things too, so it's not that far fetched to think they lied. For the rest of rehearsal, I explained my neutrality and even the people who were the strongest believers that he did it understood.

There was yet another conversation about the allegations in the dressing room I was in. Most people believed it to some degree, I briefly explained my neutrality once again, and P's female best friend said outright that she doesn't believe it happened. Interestingly, Marianne, his girlfriend, was in there with us, but didn't comment on it. After this, we asked the question if he did do it, who was he trying to see changing? Someone said maybe his girlfriend, but that didn't make sense because she never used the quick-change room. She always changed in the same dressing room as me, so if he wanted to see her changed he would've peeped in our dressing room. I left the room shortly after and I don't know where the conversation went after that.