Jeff did get to sleep eventually. But he didn't enjoy it for long, once he felt something tapping on his forehead. He woke up to see Annie standing over him, her hand curled into a fist above his forehead – as if she was knocking on it to get him up.

"Good morning, Jeff," she said in that same fantasy like quality as her "goodnight." She actually looked somewhat bright and sunny again – of course she was a morning person, even now. It still barely felt like the morning, though.

And that's because it wasn't even 6 a.m., according to Jeff's cell phone. "Annie, I could excuse a lot from you today. But this is kind of pushing it," Jeff warned.

"I always get up early, you know that," Annie assumed. "Besides, it's a longer drive to Greendale from here. And we need time to go over the plan again before we leave." After a pause, she added, "And I don't know if you let other people touch your cereal."

"Ah. Well, they've never had the chance, so…go nuts," Jeff conceded, as he began to try and get up. By the time he did and got his back straightened out, Annie was already making two bowls of cereal.

In between their chewing, Jeff and Annie went over each part of their plan one last time. Jeff knew he should have tried one last time to talk Annie out of the ending, but he couldn't bring himself to. She wouldn't back down, she was convinced she could handle it – and he didn't want to interrupt this peaceful morning.

In a few hours, things would get far more chaotic. And if they went the way Jeff feared, he needed to savor this while he could. This last moment of peace and content conversation with Annie…the kind he didn't get enough of before now. But he never had it like this before. Not with Annie and not with…

"I've never done this before," Jeff realized. Before Annie could ask him to clarify, he added, "I've never had breakfast with a woman."

He could see Annie trying not to blush, and barely succeeding. Yet this seemed to be another Jeff thing she wasn't able or willing to discuss, so Jeff didn't follow up. Instead, he thought to himself how this was uncharted territory. Having a woman stick around the 'morning after' was unheard of for him, even in relationships – and they hadn't even had sex the night before.

Yet despite all that, Jeff didn't hate this.

Annie's smiling face was the first thing he saw today. She was the first person he talked to today, and she was putting on a brave face before the trials to come. All of that put Jeff at ease for some reason. It even made him wish he could start more days like this.

But this was all out of his irrational fear that she'd overdose or something. That didn't make it real. Yet even Jeff couldn't ignore how he had to force himself to believe that this time.

Whatever he believed, it couldn't matter now. Not with school approaching and so much at stake today. Once they finished their cereal, Jeff put his new pen camera in his suit pocket, took Annie to his Lexus and drove her to Greendale. But he didn't leave the car right after they parked.

He almost always wished he didn't have to get out of his car and go to school, but this time, the feeling felt different. More desperate, maybe.

However, it seemed to fizz away when Annie put her hand on top of his.

He was supposed to make her feel better about facing today, not the other way around, and yet she seemed perfectly okay. She only looked worried about Jeff not being okay – and if he wasn't okay, then he knew she wouldn't be okay.

Annie needed him to be okay. She needed Jeff to do his job and do something for her, for once. So he would follow her lead, if that's what it took.

But despite that, he still couldn't let all of this happen without one final warning. Still, Jeff knew he would have to ease his way into it.

"Okay, let's review one last time. I'll go to the cafeteria and catch Annie Kim on tape. Then I'll meet up with you, we brave the study room, then you go pick up your coffee like usual. Then you come into history class and I'll film you with the coffee," Jeff stated as he patted his pen.

Then he got to the most important part and asked, "Please don't make me film anything else." That gave Jeff the strength to get out of the car, if only to avoid a last-minute argument.

After that, it was a matter of finding a good hiding place in the cafeteria. Then he had to wait around long enough to film someone making Annie's coffee, and hopefully catch Annie Kim drugging it moments later. If Annie Kim could drug coffee for two weeks without getting noticed, surely Jeff could be that sneaky too.

Annie just had to be sneaky enough to go into Greendale, hide and make sure no one spotted her yet. Fortunately, not many people got here this early in the morning. However, Annie knew that Annie Kim had to be skulking around the building early enough to drug the coffee, which was why she and Jeff had to be here so soon.

Hopefully, Annie Kim would do the deed early enough that Jeff would come back quickly, and they could get to the study room on time. Then after they braved through the study group's questions, Annie would pick up the coffee on time, go right to class, and Jeff would film her holding it.

After that, it was just a matter of drinking it on tape to finish the job. Regardless of the side effects. And regardless of certain last-minute requests. Before Annie dwelled on that further, Jeff found her in the halls.

He didn't say anything or look any different – perhaps he was trying to be inconspicuous in case he was being watched. He did nod once he got to her, so maybe that was a signal of success. But he didn't do anything else as they walked to the study room – and that included telling her how the hell he found a good enough hiding place to catch Annie Kim doing anything with that pen camera.

Perhaps some things were too outlandish and unlikely to explain further. In any case, it was more important to make sure they didn't explain anything to the group. At least not until the plan was finished, one way or the other.

They made good time in getting to the study room, as everyone else was already there as expected. Before Jeff even looked at the others, he came in and ordered, "Not one word."

"Jeff, this is no time to –" Britta barely started.

"Britta, compare me to any sexist you want, I don't care. After that, you're not saying a word about Annie, or to Annie. None of you are." To drive it home, he added, "You've all said a lot of embarrassing things in front of me when you thought I wasn't paying attention. I might just 'remember' some of those things out loud in public if you screw with me today. Got it?"

Troy audibly gasped in fear, which gave Jeff a special satisfaction. After all, it was his fault that everyone thought Annie was on Adderall.

And he was the one who fought hardest of all to save her, because he didn't care enough to do it last time. Both those facts made Jeff uneasy, but this little win would help with that.

The threat worked to keep Troy and the others from saying a word to Annie, or from talking about Annie or her meltdown the day before. When it was time to go, Jeff took a brief but obviously meaningful look at Annie before he let her go to the cafeteria alone, as planned.

Since Jeff scared the others off, none of them bothered Annie as she went to the cafeteria and picked up her coffee, like it was a normal day. But the noticeable uptick in her heart rate when she left the cafeteria wasn't normal.

In the back of her mind, she now knew that part of it was because of her renewed craving for Adderall. It made her hate Annie Kim all the more.

At the very least, that need would be satisfied one last time, if nothing else.

She got into history class with minutes to spare, making sure not to look and see if Annie Kim had arrived. She focused on Jeff instead, holding up her coffee so that he could film it with the pen. But she avoided his gaze after that, even as she sat next to him and then examined her tainted coffee.

The more Annie looked at it, the more she thought Jeff was wrong to worry about this. After two weeks of taking Adderall without knowing it, taking it once more wouldn't kill her. Annie Kim probably wanted her alive and ruined, so she wouldn't risk overdosing her.

She'd just try to make her freak out – and Annie had already done that, so she was in the clear. And if she wasn't, she'd just go to the hospital today anyway. Hopefully after Annie Kim was ruined herself.

After what she did, it was worth taking Adderall on purpose to prove her guilt. It was all worth it.

And yet while this made her look calm enough on the outside, she was trying desperately not to come apart on the inside.

This made her even more vulnerable to the negative, drug addled voices in her brain. They told her to shut up and drink the coffee, like she knew she wanted to do. She wanted to do it because it was part of taking down Annie Kim – but those voices told her it was worth it even if she didn't. That it was what she wanted no matter what.

Even if it wasn't, they told her there was no way she could beat Annie Kim without taking Adderall. There was no way she could do anything without it now – or so they said as Annie picked up her tainted coffee.

They sang that same song five years ago, and they were right back then. Annie could get good grades, stay on track for the Ivy league, and ignore her lack of a social or family life with Adderall. But she couldn't deal with anything without it – and that's why she lost her academic future and her family when she got clean.

That's why she had to start over at Greendale. That's why she met the study group.

That's why she found a new home with people who cared about her, for the first time ever. That's why she grew to love school for reasons other than grades, for the first time ever.

That's why she knew people who would go to the ends of the earth for her when she was in trouble, for the first time ever.

That's why someone who didn't know she existed five years ago was obsessed with helping her now. That's why someone who hated celebrity rehab shows made himself watch them all, if there was even a chance they could help him help her. That's why her fanatical Christian friend chose to turn the other cheek to her drug abuse, just so she could help Annie get well. That's why a perennial screw-up didn't mind – out loud – that her boyfriend was so set on helping another woman get well. That's why an older perennial screw-up was on his best behavior now.

That's why someone who'd tried so hard not to care for others cared so much for her while she wasn't looking.

Annie was so convinced that they had all stopped loving her, but instead, she was so loved – more than she'd ever dreamed possible. And she didn't get any of that because of Adderall.

She didn't need it to rebuild her academic future. She didn't need it to finally figure out what she wanted to do with her life. She didn't need it to learn how to be a great student and to have fun. She didn't need it to learn how to be a true friend and a truly selfless person.

She didn't need Adderall for anything that made her life great. So why would she need it now?

She needed to take it so she could prove Annie Kim was guilty. Even if Jeff did get her on tape drugging her coffee, she could still find a loophole. Annie couldn't possibly take her down unless she closed every loophole imaginable.

Just like she thought she couldn't possibly become a better, more loved person without Adderall or an Ivy League education. And look what happened.

Annie got all that on her own merit, by being better and sober. And if she willingly went off the wagon now, it would be a slap in the face to her and to those who loved her.

Hell, this was the second time her brain brought her back from the brink while she was under the influence. Her brain wasn't strong enough to do that once in high school! If it was that strong now, it could use the evidence she already had – hopefully – to prove Annie Kim was guilty.

And if she didn't, she didn't have to do the rest alone.

She thought she'd have to be alone all her life – that's why she turned to pills in the first place. But why would she need them now? Why would she need pills when her own brain, her own conscience and her own amazing family could do so much more?

How could she be so stupid enough to ever think she did? Especially in these last 12 hours?

Annie needed to end this the right way, so she could make things right with her loved ones. She needed to be clean and sober enough to reward Jeff's faith in her. And she couldn't do all that if she let herself take one more pill.

As such, she put the cup of coffee down and opened her textbook to start preparing for the day's lesson.

She barely heard a deep breath next to her, which probably belonged to Jeff. But Annie had to think more about Annie Kim's reaction right now. From her corner in the front of the classroom, she was probably stunned, but she couldn't give herself away. But when she figured out Annie was on to her, she'd likely come up with a backup plan.

Annie could stop that much, at least. The professor was running late, so there might still be time to question Annie Kim now, and get the truth out of her even without all her video evidence. She had told herself it was impossible and that Annie Kim would just find a way out of it, but nothing was impossible for Annie anymore.

Fueled by that extra confidence, Annie grabbed the coffee cup again. Even if Annie Kim didn't confess, Annie could leave and take that cup to the police as extra evidence. It was so simple that she really had to be too strung out on Adderall not to figure it out last night.

She'd technically have to cut class, but she'd fully make up the work she missed once she got well and Annie Kim was expelled. She then began to get up, barely hearing a deep breath being sucked in next to her.

Yet she certainly heard – and saw – Jeff slapping the coffee out of her hand a second later.

The cup and everything in it landed onto the floor – or on the students sitting in front of them. So much for extra evidence.

Annie turned to Jeff, who had a wide eyed, panicked look on her face that he could barely hide. The words, "What the hell?!" ran through Annie's mind at that moment.

But then she heard the words "What the hell?!" out loud, in a voice that didn't belong to her.

It belonged to Annie Kim, who realized two seconds too late what she'd said out loud. The other Annie stared, eyes wide for a moment before bolting from the classroom, much to the surprise and confusion of her classmates.

And before Annie could fully take in the meltdown, Jeff sprang to his feet and ran out, following the retreating woman as she disappeared out the door.