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* GoldDigger: Sam's father Steven is implied to be a male version. He was a poor scholarship student prior to marrying Sam's mother Joanna, who came from a wealthy OldMoney family, and their relationship is shown to be strained and generally unhappy. [[spoiler:The revelation that he had an affair with another woman that resulted in Cassie's birth only magnifies the implication; Steven refused to publicly acknowledge Cassie as his child because he was more concerned with maintaining everything he gained from his marriage than telling his wife the truth.]]
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* GoldDigger: Sam's father Steven is implied to be a male version. He was a poor scholarship student prior to marrying Sam's mother Joanna, who came from a wealthy OldMoney family, and their relationship is shown to be strained and generally unhappy. [[spoiler:The revelation that he had an affair with another woman that resulted in Cassie's birth only magnifies the implication; Steven refused to publicly acknowledge Cassie as his child because he was more concerned with maintaining everything he gained from his marriage than telling his wife the truth.truth or being a good father to his other daughter.]]
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Applied to Sam's former GirlPosse. Lauren is nice (a shy ShrinkingViolet who shows kindness to Sam and reaffirms their friendship at the prom), Candy is mean (a spiteful BrainlessBeauty who mocks Sam publicly and harasses her at the prom with insults), and Veronica is in-between (starts off as rude and bullying as Candy, but is shown crying in the girls' bathroom at the prom over being dumped by Trey and is treated somewhat sympathetically for it).
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Of the accidental kind. Steven pushed his illegitimate daughter Cassie away while they were arguing, causing her to slip on the rocks nearby and fatally hit her head.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Cassie's death leaves behind her mother and grandfather, who are both devastated by her demise. Cassie's mother takes it particularly hard to the point of attacking Sam over it.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Cassie's death leaves behind her mother and grandfather, who are both devastated by her demise. Cassie's mother takes it particularly hard to the point of attacking Sam over it.
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* GoldDigger: Sam's father Steven is implied to be a male version. He was a poor scholarship student prior to marrying Sam's mother Joanna, who came from a wealthy OldMoney family, and their relationship is shown to be strained and generally unhappy. [[spoiler:The revelation that he had an affair with another woman that resulted in Cassie's birth only magnifies the implication; Steven refused to publicly acknowledge Cassie as his child because he was more concerned with maintaining everything he gained from his marriage than telling his wife the truth.]]
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* IHatePastMe: Sam utterly hates what she finds out about her past self's personality prior to losing her memories and is nothing but ashamed of it. Considering that she used to be a hateful AlphaBitch, it's completely justified.
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* IHatePastMe: Sam utterly hates what she finds out about her past self's personality prior to losing her memories and is nothing but ashamed of it. Considering that she used to be a hateful total AlphaBitch, it's completely justified.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sam reconciles and ends up with Carson, recovers most of her memories, and uncovers Cassie's killer, and her mother, who saved her and Carson from him, is no longer an alcoholic. But the killer was her and Cassie's father; her relationship with him has effectively been destroyed after she found out he was willing to leave his daughters for dead to save his own skin, and her family will never be the same again.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sam reconciles and ends up with Carson, recovers most of her memories, and uncovers Cassie's killer, and her mother, who saved her and Carson from him, is no longer an alcoholic. But the killer was her and Cassie's father; her relationship with him has effectively been destroyed after she found out he was willing to leave his daughters for dead to save his own skin, and her family will never be the same again.]]
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* IHatePastMe: Sam utterly hates what she finds out about her past self's personality prior to losing her memories and is nothing but ashamed of it. Considering that she used to be a hateful AlphaBitch, it's completely justified.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: This happened to Sam in the backstory prior to the plot--she used to be a nice girl when she was friends with Carson and Julie, up until she met Cassie and turned into a spiteful bully who cut ties with her childhood friends in exchange for a shallow GirlPosse and a JerkJock boyfriend. After losing her memories, she works to reverse this and become a kind person again.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Sam became a bullying AlphaBitch because of her friendship with Cassie, which was what caused her to sever ties with her old friends Carson and Julie. Finding out what she used to be like is a massive source of shame for Sam, especially when she finds out that her relationship with Cassie deteriorated because of Cassie's constant envy of her.
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* BitchSlap: Cassie's mother slaps Sam while she's at the dress store with Julie, and tearfully asks her how she can even be having fun dress shopping while Cassie is dead. Sam's mother Joanna is utterly furious when she finds out and wants to take legal action against her for attacking her daughter, but Sam feels guilty and thinks she had a point.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Cassie's mother slaps Sam while she's at the dress store with Julie, and tearfully asks her how she can even be having fun dress shopping while Cassie is dead. Sam's mother Joanna is utterly furious when she finds out and wants to take legal action against her for attacking her daughter, but Sam feels guilty and thinks she had a point.
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* HighSchoolDance: The prom is featured near the end, which Sam attends with Carson and Julie with Scott. [[spoiler:It leads to Sam's [[TheirFirstTime first time sleeping with Carson]] that night, but then immediately gets ruined by Sam's recalled memory of taunting Carson about her intention of getting him suspended from his Penn State scholarship making her jump to the false conclusion that Carson tried to kill her and caused Cassie's death.]]
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* HighSchoolDance: The prom is featured near the end, which Sam attends with Carson and Julie with Scott. [[spoiler:It leads to Sam's [[TheirFirstTime first time sleeping with Carson]] that night, but then immediately gets ruined by Sam's recalled memory of taunting Carson about her intention of getting him suspended from his Penn State scholarship making scholarship, which makes her jump to the false conclusion that Carson tried to kill her and caused Cassie's death.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sam reconciles and ends up with Carson, recovers most of her memories, and uncovers Cassie's killer, and her mother, who saved her and Carson from him, is no longer an alcoholic. But the killer was her and Cassie's father; her relationship with him has effectively been destroyed after she found out he was willing to leave his daughters for dead to save his own skin, and her family is no longer the same.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sam reconciles and ends up with Carson, recovers most of her memories, and uncovers Cassie's killer, and her mother, who saved her and Carson from him, is no longer an alcoholic. But the killer was her and Cassie's father; her relationship with him has effectively been destroyed after she found out he was willing to leave his daughters for dead to save his own skin, and her family is no longer will never be the same.same again.]]
* HighSchoolDance: The prom is featured near the end, which Sam attends with Carson and Julie with Scott. [[spoiler:It leads to Sam's [[TheirFirstTime first time sleeping with Carson]] that night, but then immediately gets ruined by Sam's recalled memory of taunting Carson about her intention of getting him suspended from his Penn State scholarship making her jump to the false conclusion that Carson tried to kill her and caused Cassie's death.]]
* ThirdActMisunderstanding: [[spoiler:After sleeping with Carson, Sam has a memory of threatening Carson with getting him suspended and having his Penn State scholarship taken away while she was still in her AlphaBitch phase, and becomes paranoid that Carson tried to kill her and succeeded in killing Cassie the night she went missing. When she accuses Carson of this, he's furious and upset that she thinks he's low enough to have done that and breaks up with her despite her attempt to apologize. Even after that, though, he still comes to her rescue when she calls him for help after discovering Cassie's real killer.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Pretty much everyone not named Sam, Carson, Scott, Julie, and Joanna is absent from the ending after Steven's arrest. A particularly glaring example is Detective Ramirez, as he never appears again after attempting to interrogate Sam alone.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Pretty much everyone not named Sam, Carson, Scott, Julie, and Joanna is absent from the ending after Steven's arrest. A Some particularly glaring example is examples are Detective Ramirez, as he never appears again after attempting to interrogate Sam alone.alone, and Del, who disappears from the story after Carson punches him out for trying to harass Sam into taking him back after the prom.]]
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Cassie's mother slaps Sam while she's at the dress store with Julie, and tearfully asks her how she can even be having fun dress shopping while Cassie is dead. Sam's mother Joanna is utterly furious when she finds out and wants to take legal action against her for attacking her daughter, but Sam feels guilty and thinks she had a point.
* MamaBear: Joanna is infuriated when she finds out that Cassie's mother slapped Sam and wants to sue her for assault. [[spoiler:She takes this up to the hilt in the end when she ''shoots'' Steven to protect Sam and Carson from him after his true colors are revealed.]]
* RedHerring: Trey initially seems to be set up to be important, as he was Cassie's on-and-off boyfriend who constantly fought with her and, after her death, is so uncaring that he starts hooking up with first Candy and then Veronica--all of which seems to point to him being involved in her death somehow. But he almost completely vanishes from the narrative after her funeral and the most mentioned of him afterwards is Veronica crying after he broke up with her, indicating he's just a garden variety {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:It turns out he wasn't even present on the night Cassie died, as they had broken up before then.]]
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Carson is described to have intense blue eyes, "the color of the sky right before day ended and night took hold―the color of dusk".
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Carson is described to have intense blue eyes, "the color of the sky right before day ended and night took hold―the color of dusk".dusk".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Pretty much everyone not named Sam, Carson, Scott, Julie, and Joanna is absent from the ending after Steven's arrest. A particularly glaring example is Detective Ramirez, as he never appears again after attempting to interrogate Sam alone.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Pretty much everyone not named Sam, Carson, Scott, Julie, and Joanna is absent from the ending after Steven's arrest. A particularly glaring example is Detective Ramirez, as he never appears again after attempting to interrogate Sam alone.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:Just how ''did'' Cassie obtain the birth certificate that proved Steven was her father, and what prompted her to search for it to begin with? She never told anyone, not even her own mother, and thus took it to her grave.]]
* SanitySlippage: Sam fears this is happening to her when she keeps seeing hallucinations of Cassie and glimpses of her memories; undergoing such an episode in public causes her to be dubbed "Insanity Sam" by her own former friends Veronica and Candy. [[spoiler:Her fear is intensified when she finds out she was the one writing the warning notes to herself, as she apparently wrote them during her brief moments of recalling her memories.]]
* SanitySlippage: Sam fears this is happening to her when she keeps seeing hallucinations of Cassie and glimpses of her memories; undergoing such an episode in public causes her to be dubbed "Insanity Sam" by her own former friends Veronica and Candy. [[spoiler:Her fear is intensified when she finds out she was the one writing the warning notes to herself, as she apparently wrote them during her brief moments of recalling her memories.]]
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* AdultFear: A twofer, in both Sam's and Cassie's cases.
** For Sam's: your daughter goes missing for days and turns up alive but amnesiac, with no memory of what happened or even her own identity, and she's under police investigation for her own friend's death.
** For Cassie's: your daughter disappears with her friend and is eventually found dead in a lake, with no hints as to what happened or who killed her. It's no wonder her mother is so withdrawn and miserable, and takes it out on Sam when they run into each other.
** For Sam's: your daughter goes missing for days and turns up alive but amnesiac, with no memory of what happened or even her own identity, and she's under police investigation for her own friend's death.
** For Cassie's: your daughter disappears with her friend and is eventually found dead in a lake, with no hints as to what happened or who killed her. It's no wonder her mother is so withdrawn and miserable, and takes it out on Sam when they run into each other.
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* MissingChild: A twofer, in both Sam's and Cassie's cases.
** For Sam's: your daughter goes missing for days and turns up alive but amnesiac, with no memory of what happened or even her own identity, and she's under police investigation for her own friend's death.
** For Cassie's: your daughter disappears with her friend and is eventually found dead in a lake, with no hints as to what happened or who killed her. It's no wonder her mother is so withdrawn and miserable, and takes it out on Sam when they run into each other.
** For Sam's: your daughter goes missing for days and turns up alive but amnesiac, with no memory of what happened or even her own identity, and she's under police investigation for her own friend's death.
** For Cassie's: your daughter disappears with her friend and is eventually found dead in a lake, with no hints as to what happened or who killed her. It's no wonder her mother is so withdrawn and miserable, and takes it out on Sam when they run into each other.
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* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:How Cassie died. Specifically, Steven pushed her while they were arguing and she hit her head on the rocks of the cliff they were on, which killed her. The blood on the rocks caused Sam to slip and fall, leading to her amnesia.]]
