After his phone call with Victoria, Brent considered that maybe she was right. Compared to Charlotte, he didn't have much to worry about in the social-image-being-ruined respect. In many ways, it wasn't like he had a social image at all. Being a "badass" had been cool for a year or so, since he was coming off of a long road of being a complete nerd, but now he was really just selling drugs and maintaining this side of his personality to help his family stay afloat. If anything, he preferred to blend into the background around most people and aside from a couple of congratulatory comments about dating Lottie from other guys in school, no one had said anything about his family. No one cared and someone's mother being on the verge of dying was something that even the biggest jerk at Saint Jude's would know was not comedic on any level. He hated the idea of his family being thrust into the spotlight, even if no one had cared, mostly because Charlotte had to have known that it was his family. There was absolutely no way that she didn't know, and Brent was positive that the class president had watched that video multiple times before it was shown to make sure that it was perfect. He liked messing with her and liked it when she messed with him back, but something like this just seemed like it was on a whole different playing field. There was still a part of him that wanted to text her and ask her what she was doing, but he had never been serious with Charlotte before and trying to have an emotional, real conversation would just be awkward and uncomfortable. Plus, Victoria had eased his concerns and the promise of a hefty payout over the gossip he leaked about Jane was enough for him to let her off the hook for promoting his mother's health crisis even further.
He didn't directly make any profit off of his deal with Jane and Piper last night, because all of Jane's money went into Piper's pocket, but it had technically just brought him money from Victoria too. Plus, he was sure that all it would take was one sale for Jane to be hooked again and that was going to pay off big this time around. He felt a little bit better over the whole ALS event fiasco, and with the guarantee of lots of money in his future, even better. Rather than return home and potentially have to deal with his brother, who was undoubtedly strung out on drugs, despite it being the middle of the day, Brent headed to the library. He had a few papers to start working on and planned on staying there until it closed. When he arrived twenty minutes later, he settled in at a table in a quite corner nook of the library, set up his laptop and put his ear buds in, although he wasn't playing any music, and sent Kelley a text. He considered texting Piper to tell her that he was going to need her to send Jane his way again soon, but decided not to push it. He thought about texting Charlotte for a while, but wasn't sure what to say. About twenty minutes into his writing, he decided to just send it. Being an ass to her was better than trying to seriously talk about the rumor and feeling uncomfortable.
To: Kelley
Come chill at the library
To: Charlotte
Telling people you're my gf now? I knew you were crazy about me, but calm down Buchanan