Mary (A Girl Like Grace)

"I know you think I had something to do with it, but I didn't!"

- Mary's infamous lie to Grace about her responsibility with Andrea's suicide in the trailer for "A Girl Like Grace"

Mary is the main antagonist in the drama film A Girl Like Grace (2016).

She is portrayed by singer/actress Raven Symone'.

History
She is the leader of her mean girl group, "The Cherry Crew" and like her members, they all wear pink jackets and boss people around. beautiful, but also vain, arrogant, self-obsessed, sadistic, hypocritical and rude and always looking for various ways to draw attention to herself. She's also a closeted homosexual woman as she seduced Andrea in the girls bathroom prior to her death by kissing her, then she chastises Andrea for being a lesbian and bullies her for this with the help of her mean girl group. She then outs the reluctant and scared Andrea in front of the whole school and encourages everyone to hate Andrea for "who she really is". Ironically, Mary herself is a closeted lesbian yet she abuses Andrea for being a lesbian.

In the film, she and her posse of mean girls relentlessly bully the protagonist Grace and mock her of her questioning sexuality as well as her lesbian relationship with her late best friend Andrea. Throughout the film, Mary and her team try to humiliate Grace to the point of suicide like they did before, going as far as to spy on Grace when she loses her virginity with her boyfriend and then out the news to the whole school and place sand from the beach in the girl's locker while chanting slut-shaming rhymes such as "nasty stanky hoe" continually at Grace in front of the whole school. When Mary pushes Grace one last time by shoving her into the swimming pool and calling her homophobic slurs, it is revealed that Mary was the one responsible for Grace's friend/lover Andrea committing suicide in the first place, though Mary denies this and puts the blame on the innocent Grace. Grace discovers this and tackles Mary in the girl's locker room, punching her and kicking her continually. Mary doesn't put up much of a fight and reveals her cowardice by covering herself. When the fight's over, the principle and a school guidance counselor are seen pulling Grace and Mary apart during which, a bloodied and bruised Mary tries to attack Grace one more time, this time by punching her but fails and is left for ridicule with her horrified girl squad, much to herself and the girls dismay.

Biography
In the film's opening, Mary is first seen sitting in the cafeteria with her mean girl group across from their latest victim, Grace. When Grace passes by them, they all exchange dirty, scornful looks towards her. As Grace leaves for home after school's over, Mary is seen in the hallway openly expressing her sexual attraction towards the new student, Jason. The next, Mary approaches Grace in the hallway, blocking her path in the hallway with her mean girl squad and gives her a false apology telling her that she's sorry about the death of her close friend and rumored girlfriend, Andrea. As she makes provocative references about the Grace and Andrea having once been "close" hinting at their being secret lovers, Matt intervenes and tells her to leave Grace alone. Mary refuses to cooperate with Matt and rebuffs his demands, telling him that he has no authority to be joining in her conversation with her victim, Grace. She also claims that Matt doesn't belong in the conversation between herself, her squad and her victim Grace or even belong in the very same high school by reminding him that he's suppose to be in collage by now. After such verbal abuse, Mary returns to insulting Grace by reprimanding her of her supposed claims, telling her that she knows that Grace thinks that she has something to do with Andrea's suicide but denies it completely. Grace then asks her why would she say such thing if she knew that she herself had "nothing " to do with Andrea's suicide. Mary then approaches her coldly and remarks at her, claiming that she only says such mean things to Grace because she knew that's exactly what Grace would be thinking, out of suspicious belief that she herself had something to do with Andrea's suicide. After exchanging such harsh words, Mary mockingly runs her hand across Grace's face in remark of her beauty, then shoves her aside so that she and her squad could walk through the hallways in confidence, much to Matt's annoyance and Grace's dismay.

One day during the girl's volleyball game, Mary and her mean girl squad are seen on the sideline practicing their own made-up theme song which contains lecherous lyrics in reference to a woman's genitalia and comparison to fruit. As she and her squad practice their suggestive dance moves by twerking, squatting and shaking their bodies rhythmically to their own theme, Mary is disappointed to see that Grace isn't losing her winning streak nor her confidence in playing volleyball. Turns out their sexually suggestive routine to their theme song was only a distraction in her attempt to throw Grace off her game, and when it didn't go to plan, Mary quickly put the blame on one of her own squad members, beginning with the weakest who is a blonde Caucasian teenage girl, claiming that she wasn't dancing sexually enough to the song to distract Grace and make her lose the game. When the blonde squad member tries to defend herself by apologizing to Mary, Mary then mocks the squad member with verbal put-downs, taunting her in mimicry. As she continues on with her abuse, even getting the other squad members to put the blame on their weakest member, she stops when she sees the object of her affection and sexual attraction, Jason, talking to her latest victim Grace (due to his crush on her) and immediately becomes jealous, asking her squad why would he be talking to Grace instead of her.

At a teenagers alcohol and drug fueled party, Mary is seen on the dance floor amongst the other teen lovers dancing with another boy from her school and twerking her butt against his groin while touching and caressing his neck in a suggestive manner. Her fun stops when she sees that target Grace has arrived at the party and became even more incensed when she sees that Grace has arrived with Jason, the object of her affection. Though incensed and jealous of the pair talking and dancing together at the party, Mary stays calm and tells her squad not to worry about the situation for she had a plan to get back at them and sabotage their potential romance. By the next day, Mary and her squad overhear Jason making a date with Grace for a party that weekend and in an attempt to steal him, she and her squad approach Jason and they block his path so she could talk to him. Mary asks Jason if he was going to a party as she heard it as a rumor from their high school. Jason admits he is going to a party, and Mary tells him that she will see him at the party, batting her eyes and flipping her hair seductively at her before walking away with her squad.

That following weekend, Mary has attended the very same party taking place at the beach with her squad. She is seen first flipping her hair and dancing by the campfires when one of her squad members alerts her that Jason has arrived with Grace as his date. Seeing this, Mary is shocked but then walks calmly over to Jason and Grace and makes crude disgusted eyes at Grace before flirting with Jason, offering him a promise of sex and real 'womanliness' should he ever get tired of being with Grace. After she leaves him, her squad back her up by making lecherous comments to Jason about their "Cherry Crew" group having a major if controversial reputation and tease him flirtatiously before they leave to follow after Mary. While watching from the campfire with her squad, smoking cigarettes to ease her frustrations and jealousy, she sees Jason and Grace leaving together for a quiet spot and becomes furious. As one of her squad members jokes about Jason coming close to a possibility of him and Grace consummating their relationship sexually for the first time, Grace angrily tells that same member to shut up by cursing at her viciously and then watches the lovers walk away together, staring angrily out of lust and jealousy.

The very next day, Mary and her squad had succeeded in turning the whole against Grace as everyone knows by now that she had lost her virginity on a beach and taunt her for it. As Grace walks down the hallway suffering taunts and laughter from the other student, Mary strands by the locker with her squad and taunts Grace of the way she walks, revealing to her that she know why she's walking funny due to painful sexual intercourse. As Grace opens up her locker, beach sand falls out and Mary and her squad burst out in laughter, as they planted the beach sand in her locker as a cruel joke as well as evidence for the whole school to see. By now, Mary and her squad proceed to break out in song by mocking Grace using the lyrical reference of the beach she lost her virginity to and chant "SANDY, ASHY HOES!" continually at Grace even succeeding in terminating her relationship with Jason and causing the whole school to catcall Grace such obscenities.

By the film's climax, Mary's true colors are shown as flashbacks finally reveal who was the cause of Andrea's suicide all along: it was Mary, even though she denied it. In one flashback montage, Mary and her Cherry Crew squad are seen cowering over a bruised and teary Andrea who sobs while Mary and her squad taunt her for being a lesbian. Mary and her Cherry Crew squad also proceed to make fun of Andrea's choice of makeup and fashion, calling her a "fucking vampire" and tells her that she should just die, claiming that nobody in this world would believe her and eve managed to convince Andrea that no one could save her even if she asked for help. In another flashback, Mary approaches Andrea while she washing her hands in the girl's bathroom and violently shoves her aside. Mary then grabs Andrea with both hands and beat her continually on her head, shoulders and neck with her fists before violently clutching her by her throat and pinning her up against a wall. As she does all this, she is shown pointing a finger in Andrea's bruised face while cursing obscenities at her, all of which are mostly inaudible in some of the flashback montage.

In the final flashback montage, Mary is shown in the girl's bathroom seducing Andrea. Staring longingly at her, Mary then approaches her and pins Andrea against a wall, kissing her on the neck before the two girls exchange a kiss on the lips. It is revealed that Mary was in a secret lesbian relationship with Grace and was the one sending Andrea text messages to her phone while posing under the false disgust as a boy from another school. However, Mary blackmailed Andrea, forcing her not to tell anyone about their relationship even by making her swore to secrecy for if she told anyone, she would be dead. Once, Mary found out that word slip of her alleged relationship with Andrea, she then turned cold and cornered her lover at every turn, punching her, bruising her, beating her black-and-blue until her makeup was smeared off and ruined until Andrea was left in tears. Mary then denies such allegations of her relationship with Andrea and even denies being a lesbian herself and manages to put the blame of Andrea claiming that Andrea tried to seduce her and was willing to make Andrea's life a living hell for being a lesbian. After the brutal beating, Mary and her crew verbally and physically abuse Andrea, pushing her to commit suicide which they ultimately succeed at when Andrea goes home ans slits her wrists in the tub while crying.

By the film's end, Mary and her Cherry Crew squad approach Grace by the girl's swimming pool.

Quotes
"That new boy in school, Jason? Super hot."

- Mary expressing her sexual attraction to Jason, the new student "Grace. Listen. I'm really sorry about your friend Andrea. It must be really hard not to have your best friend around anymore."

- Mary's unapologetic insult to Grace about the death of her friend, Andrea "You guys were...really connected at the hip."

- Mary's lecherous remark about Grace and Andrea's close relationship "Matt, get a life. You're not even suppose to be here. Or in this conversation."

- Mary rebuffing Matt's demands to leave Grace alone "Aren't you suppose to be in collage or something?"

- Mary continuing to berate Matt for defending her victim Grace "I'm afraid I am. Seems like someone here's obsessed with our little miss Grace."

- Mary to Matt when told she is not to worry about his concerns for her bullying Grace "Like I was saying.... (rolls her eyes)"

- Mary's reaction to Matt's defense of Grace before taunting her some more "I know you think I had something to do with it. But I didn't."

- Mary lying to Grace about her involvement with Andrea's death/suicide "Because I know you think I had something to do with it."

- Mary's threat to Grace when asked why would she say such things to her about Andrea's suicide "Preach."

- Mary to Grace as her mean girl squad defends her of her false innocence involving Andrea's suicide "It's okay, Grace. You'll find yourself another girlfriend."

- Mary telling Grace she'll 'get over it' as she mourns her lover Andrea "There are plenty of other lesbians at our school."

- Mary mocking Grace of her choice of romantic partner before shoving her aside

"This ain't working. I don't like it; something's wrong!"

- Mary to her squad when all their attempts to make Grace lose the game fail "And it's you. It's her!"

- Mary quickly putting the blame on her weakest squad member "You're messing up. You're not even committing!"

- Mary pointing out her squad member's flaws in their theme song "Fine? No. "Okay, Okay, Okay"!"

- Mary mocking her weakest squad member when she tries to apologize for her mistakes "Commit, bitch, commit!"

- Mary's harsh words to her weakest squad member for messing up their song "This ain't no game!"

- Mary putting down one of her squad members for messing up "Don't be huffin' and puffin', it's her!"

- Mary trying to get her other squad members to blame their weakest member "What is he doing talking to her?"

- Mary's jealous reaction when she sees Jason talking to Grace

"Is that Grace?"

- Mary's reaction to her squad when she sees Grace at a party with Jason

"Is that Jason?"

- Mary's jealous reaction to her squad when she sees Jason at the party with Grace "No worries. No worries."

- Mary telling her squad not to worry about Jason being with Grace as she plans to steal him

"Hey, Jason. I heard you're going to that party this weekend."

- Mary approaching Jason in an attempt to find where she could locate him "Great. I'll see you there."

- Mary bidding goodbye to Jason flirtatiously before walking away with her squad

"Hey, Jason! When you get tired of that, you should come hang with us."

- Mary flirting with Jason, offering him a promise he shouldn't refuse as well as make him leave Grace

"Shut the fuck up!"

- Mary to a squad member when told of the possibility of Jason having sex with with Grace

"I see you're walking differently, Grace"

- Mary taunting Grace about the way she's walking post sexual encounter "Who loses their virginity on a beach?"

- Mary mocking Grace about how she lost her virginity "SANDY, ASHY HOES! SANDY, ASHY HOES! SANDY, ASHY HOES!"

- Mary and her Cherry Crew taunting Grace in sing-song style

"We're not going to save you, and no one is!"

- Mary taunting her victim Andrea before her suicide in a flashback

"You need to GO AWAY!"

- Mary verbally abusing Andrea, pushing her to commit suicide "GRACE!"

- Mary shouting at her victim Grace prompting her to stop by the pool "It's okay. I mean, if I were you, I would just be happy that Jason gave me attention. I'd be a hoe for him, too!"

- Mary's last words to Grace before violently shoving her into the swimming pool