everyone's a girl and nancy and stevie did, in fact have a thing that night. joanne was taking photos of the party, which then transitioned to her getting photographic evidence of the two of them together. stevie would rather die than have that get out. nancy is grieving, mad at herself+ internalized homophobia +guilt bc the first time she actually gave in to what she wanted, for once, her best friend dies and isn't that a sign? to suppress herself? but then she finds herself growing closer to joanne byers while she looks for her little brother. joanne knows she's a lesbian, has known for a long time, since lonnie was throwing words at her and that one hit. stevie is little miss perfect, and she can't risk anything like this getting out, so she deflects, calling joanne a queer and a creep and antagonizing her until she's gone too far and then. well. she shows up at the byers house.