The first moment Tina realized that she and Lee weren't meant to be, she saw Lee run to Biffy.
It was a short conversation, but it was long enough.
Those looks she swore Lee used to give her were directed to the guy.
He was big, burly, muscular and mean. But Lee seemed to be hanging on his every word. Like Tina had always wanted him too.
Biffy T. Goldstein – the menace of tenth grade. He would grind you into dust and then smoke your dust. Well – that was the story. Someone had probably mixed him up with a fairytale giant.
But Lee, Lee stared at him like he was the Mona Lisa. Or any other piece of art. Lee had actually ignored Tina for the first time in his life.
At the end of the play – when Biffy and Brandi kissed, if Lee hadn't been running out of the room, she didn't know what he'd have done. His girlfriend and the guy he was in love with. Lucky for him, he was running back to detention, she supposed.
Tina knew she'd lost. For the longest time she'd been the only one in Lee's heart. And she'd just let it slide. She'd thought it would last forever. But, apparently it didn't.
It hurt her. She'd lost her love, her crush, her Lee.
But she guessed he'd found his.