The trap Hannah and Courtney set for Tyler doesn't exactly go as planned. Hannah mixes them up some potent drinks from her parents' liquor cabinet, and in her drunken state, Courtney starts daring Hannah to take off her shirt and kiss her, which is when Tyler snaps a photo. Although they catch him and figure out his identity, he later sends a photo of them making out to the whole school.
Despite the fact their faces aren't in the picture, a few of their classmates start asking Courtney if it's her and Hannah. Courtney, who's a lesbian but refuses to come out of the closet at the risk of upsetting her high-strung fathers or tarnishing her golden reputation, lies and says it's Hannah and "her girlfriend Laura." She also says they asked her to have a three-way. Hannah loses another friend and falls farther from grace in the eyes of her peers.
