If We Were Villains

The group runs down to the lake to celebrate. Meredith tries to convince everyone to skinny-dip with her, to no avail. They sit down, and Alexander rolls a joint and passes it around. Richard comments that he thinks it’s going to be a good school year, which the others mock him for—after all, he got the part that he’d hoped for. The group’s conversation turns to their parents’ reactions to their acceptances at Dellecher.

Oliver’s father had been unimpressed with the idea of “art school,” and it took weeks to convince him to let Oliver attend. Alexander is out of touch with his mother and never met his father, so he attends the school on scholarship. James’s father—a poetry professor at the University of California, Berkeley—is uninterested in his son’s theatre major. Meredith’s family is wealthy and distant. Filippa doesn’t share anything about her family. Richard and Wren’s parents, successful actors and directors in London, are the only parents of the bunch who were excited to see their children at Dellecher. After Richard says this, Alexander shoves him playfully into the water. Later, the group goes back to the Castle, Oliver trailing behind.