It's October the perfect princess image she put for her teachers is gone because she earned their trust enough for it

Besides the thousands of millions of homework that her teachers put for her, Cassandra was worrying about something else, Alyssa her new best friend had met mason in 3rd grade they were friends since then so Alyssa was practically the mutual between them, a lot of her and Cassandra's friendship at the time revolved around how annoying Mason was and even though it WAS true a part of Cassandra didn't wanna believe due to her feelings toward him. Cassandra really wanted to share what she felt for Mason with Alyssa but Cassandra's main worry was

"What if this ruins our friendship"

At the time Cassandra thought that the base and foundation of their friendship was talking about how annoying Mason that why she so worried....