Even if Dri’s undying, unrealistic love for Liam reads as immature, Jessie still believes that it’s a friend’s duty to support a crush like this. Questioning Agnes’s behavior then becomes a way for Jessie to question how friendships might function differently here. Clearly, nice people become involved with outright mean ones, as evidenced by Liam and Gem’s relationship. Liam’s genuinely kind behavior toward Jessie, however, suggests that he’s not at all involved in that kind of bullying and possibly doesn’t know that side of Gem.