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Even though Jill likes the MC, she knows he's hanging with the wrong crowd (in her opinion), she has already written off the DIKs based on her experience with Rusty and seeing the others' behavior. So when Tybalt gives her these stories, it only fuels her concerns.So the whole point is not if there's a base for a legal case, because it will never be a legal case. The point is why an in-love Jill can believe Tybalt to that extent when he tells her there's another prep willing to sue MC. It's not a plot issue but a Jill's characterization issue: how can a girl like her believe a guy like Tybalt when she feels something for the MC? Why she believes Tybalt is going to convince that other guy and lets him do so, instead of taking matters into her own hands and clear things out with the MC and that other guy first, to know what exactly happened and what are the future consequences of it? Because she just accepts Tybalt's word on it and even when she 'rebels' against his advice and invites MC to the birthday date she's apparently decided to end things with him before knowing MC's version of the story. She was always presented as a nice, caring and inteligent girl, and now she seems to be not just naive, but socially dumb and unaware of the whole world of possibilities her surname opens to her. Which is not to be expected from someone with her background.
She's torn between what she feels and what she thinks is the truth (as told to her by Tybalt).
She's preoccupied in the auditorium and focuses on her music concerns before intending to talk about the Tybalt issue but then loses her window - she kinda procrastinates about it (who wants to have that kind of conversation anyway). The fact that he showed up with a black eye didn't help his cause much...
She unintentionally meets him at the library and the Tybalt conversation is not one to have in front of friends.
She enjoys his company on the picnic but the Tybalt conversation would have been hanging over her head the whole time. She knew she had to initiate it but she would have been dreading it. When the MC goes to kiss her she fucks up her entire approach to the subject and even admits it came out wrong. Then she tells him and he reacts.
In her consistent motherly fashion, she was trying to protect the mc from trouble, trouble that she believes he caused and he even admits to.
There's nothing wrong or poorly written about any of this. She's a 21 year old woman falling in love but the target of her affections is setting off red flags all over the place. Is he a trouble maker or is he a victim? But she wants him! Emotions can be motherfuckers, making it hard to see straight and to think straight.
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