Rachel Tozier.

Rachel arrived at the picnic later than everyone else, the very last one; the others were waiting for her, and she greeted everyone with words that justified her lateness.

"Hey, people. Sorry, but the movie queen was busy with more than just that," she said, adjusting her glasses with an air of importance, inadvertently revealing her bracelet charm with Ellie's name on it.

While everyone else watched and blinked, guessing who Rachel loved romantically, Ellie kept her pink cat-paw-shaped inhaler in a separate compartment of her beach bag, standing far away from it. But after seeing Rachel's bracelet more closely, she understood everything and went to her bag to breathe in the clean air from the device. Rachel's expression at that moment was distorted by a look of anticipation, because Rachel also understands that a relationship with her carries risks for Ellie, in terms of Rachel potentially infecting her with AIDS and the fact that whoever she falls in love with will die early—a curse of the Tozier family. Rachel's father, Richie, is a comedian, her mother is unknown, and Rachel herself is an open lesbian, but she won't dare flirt in Ellie's presence. And the dark one stays by her side no matter the weather, precisely to protect her. Ellie's death is the only thing Retschel fears more than Ellie's rejection of the relationship.