She should be happy that her parents want her to go. She didn’t think they’d understand if she had been able to enter the contest normally.
Here was the opportunity she should be longing for, but it had awful timing and even worse delivery. Deep down she knew that her sister and parents wanted what was best for her and that Liz did what she thought would work out best in the end, but it was just the way it happened. Here she thought no one know about what had transpired since she snuck those first couple diapers at the Roberts, and it turns out that everyone knew. It was as if the bigger secret was that Jess’ secret wasn’t secret.