Chapter 36

Anna and Howard are in the office when Tiffany enters for her meeting as Jordan. She's wearing a mask claiming that she'll lose her composure when she sees Howard and he might get frightened by her facial expressions and they try to be fine with it. They don't make her take it off, though, and they decide to have the meeting. Howard offers his hand for Tiffany to shake as a first meeting and when Tiffany takes it, something seems to be familiar and he begins looking at her outfit. That's when Tiffany begins acting like a big fan causing Anna to try to get her to settle down.
The three of them have the meeting, Daniel had to do other things, but Howard is still curious about her appearance wondering if she's really Jordan. Tiffany takes out her past materials to show and that's when the guitar pick necklace reveals itself and Howard pulls off the mask to reveal Tiffany and she reveals her identity as Jordan.
Howard can't believe it and the two begin to argue. Daniel and Anna watch them back and forth like a tennis match not fully understanding what's going on. The two continue to get their own digs at one another but still agree to go through with the partnership. At least Daniel realizes that they're acting like enemies, even if they don't understand the reasoning.
The press conference happens later that day about their partnership and the two are polite with one another. Tiffany admits to her role as Howard's past assistant and also as his number one fan and Howard says he just found out about her identity but was mad, when asked.
In the library Laurence thinks to when Tiffany told her to chase and seize her own happiness and determines that she'll be confident in herself. She goes to look for the book she was reading that day but can't find it anywhere and decides to ask the front desk about it. They only have the Chinese version as the English one was checked out.
Laurence heads to the classroom to look for kengsington when she runs into drake and blair. They begin to talk about how many girls have come to look for him and ask Laurence why she jumped on the bandwagon of liking kengsington. She denies it but runs into kengsington out in the hall. She doesn't answer him when he asks what's wrong and just runs away. Kengsington decides to punish blair and drake for saying stupid things in front of his friend and chases after her.
She makes her way to the roof in tears when kengsington finally catches up to her. He tells her to stop crying and she tells him that she doesn't know what to do because she knows that they're from different worlds. Kengsington doesn't understand, thinking that they're friends and Laurence determines that it's just that. But he comes up and hugs her telling her that whoever upsets her upsets him and tries his best to comfort her.
She wonders about where her book went, though, and kengsington pulls out the English version, and her version, the English one. She discovers that he was the one who checked out the book and wonders why he asked her about it then. It turns out he saw some of the English passage written on her notebook and was able to look it up on the internet that same day she was going to approach him with it in the library. When she left the library that day she put the book back and that's where kengsington retrieved it from.
Professor winfield praises the class for their hard work and points out Howard on improving his math grade. She points out that he should thank Tiffany for tutoring him and he begrudgingly does. She wishes them well on their break and class is officially dismissed. Howard leaves without saying another word to her.
At lunch that day Laurence worries about Tiffany not eating but she's not hungry. The gossipy kids also join their table and begin to wonder about who Tiffany is going through a breakup with. She just says that it's over before it even began. They begin to talk about the school legend. One of the girls explains that legend has it if they enter the old clock tower and sincerely express their regrets, the clock might listen and she could return to the past. Tiffany isn't afraid of such a place and decides to go there right at that moment.
Howard is angrily playing his heart out on the piano when Jeff finds him. He points out that Victoria taught them how to play that song and that it was a perfect song for when they began to fight and they actually calmed down when the song was played. He admits to liking Victoria back then, even though he knew that kengsington and Howard both liked her, too. He continues by saying he doesn't know why he said they'd never fall for the same girl but points out that people contradict themselves and things change but if he had the chance to go back in time, he wouldn't change a thing. Jeff explains that he didn't have much choice in life so he always ran whenever he was given one and in the end, he just narrowed down the answers to only one.
Howard finally gets up from the piano and tells Jeff that he'd sometimes rather fight it out than listen to his confessions since it makes him tired. However, he's finally understood and tells Jeff he'll figure out his decision soon enough
Tiffany has made her way to the clock tower and stands in front of it. She greets it like it's alive and introduces herself. She begins to recount the activities that brought her to that point, thinking back that if the clock could take her back, she'd never have run away from her wedding, never left the person she's going to marry, and never met him. She quickly decides to take that one back and decides to be taken back to the day he confessed his feelings while they were in the cave feeling that she should've confessed at that point but if she did and he got mad, then the good memories of that time wouldn't exist.