Ms. Rose

**Ms Holly Rose** is the main antagonist of Crown Lake season 2. Ms. Rose joined Crown Lake as a guidance counselor in 1995. She clearly comes from a rich background, as she carries around an expensive purse, her desk is full of her personal items, wears expensive dresses and lots of makeup. She claimed that she went there to check how things are going and make sure the students are able to graduate. She was formerly a student at Crown Lake, during the time when Dana Roth (Nellie's Mom) went there. She was a victim under Dana's bullying, so she took out her anger from her past onto Nellie. It is not known why Dana bullied Ms. Rose. But it is likely Ms Rose was once friends with Dana, possibly even best friends. It also looks like while she was possibly friends with Dana she was quite popular! Presumably she fell out with Dana and their other friends.

It is possible that Ms. Rose might have designed the "Heather System" at Crown Lake when she was a student. Since that system was harsh, Dana may have wanted to get rid of the system by getting rid of Ms. Rose, so she bullied her. Or, Dana is “Heather” and Ms. Rose was her first victim, so she bullied her to see if she could survive Crown Lake with challenges. Either way, it was Ms. Rose who got Dana kicked out of Crown Lake Academy.

In "Who We Become", Ms. Rose told Chloe, "Crown Lake is a series of locks and every lock has a key", and she had a bunch of keys hanging from her skirt. At the end of "The Crypt", a message showed up on the Tattle Wall saying, ''Remember N, secrets are the real locks and I hold all the Keys". This means she can access the entire school even though she wasn't there at all times. She knows about the roach mob paying Nellie's school fees, and brought up the topic to the entire school, while nobody else knew that. It was also seen that she knows almost everyone's secrets, and wrote them all down on papers. Her style of writing "O's" is an awful lot like the "Heather O's". These are big indications that she might be Heather Masterson.

Ms. Rose is a cruel person. She tormented Nellie and did the same to other kids too. Presumably, she is such a horrid person because she was bullied. Towards Chloe, she is totally opposite of her true personality. She inspired Chloe to attend the ecological fair and was surprisingly friendly to her. She was somewhat harsh yet a bit friendly with Nellie when they first met asking her who her mother was. She started hating her after she discovered she was Dana Roth's daughter.

She assigned Nick as Nellie's new Spanish tutor which was extremely suspicious of her, because as soon as Nellie went for spanish lessons to Nick she started receiving Heather notes that forced her to tell him about Tiffany's brother situation. While it turns out that Lucy Quinn was the one who sent her the notes and even exposed Tiffany's brother, it is obvious that Ms Rose had something to do with this situation as she had dirt on everyone and Lucy was a new student unaware of Tiffany's situation at first. Presumably, Ms. Rose was the one giving Lucy all the information, while Lucy wrote all the notes as in the season 2 finale there was a scene where Lucy whispered something in her ear and she smiled maliciously on hearing that.

## Physical Appearance

Ms. Rose is a pretty woman with medium-length Brunette hair and Brown eyes. Ms Rose has a stunning figure and is very tall, standing at 5 ft 9. Ms Rose often wears short skirts and dresses to show off her long legs, but wears high boots and socks to keep it appropriate at the school. As a teenager, Ms Rose was tall, quite thin, with sallow skin, Brown eyes, very long Brunette hair and a bitter face, at least in her individual school photograph (though in her group photograph with her classmates she looked happy which suggests she didn’t always look bitter).

Ms. Rose with Dana Roth and 2 other girls. The fact that they are in a photograph together suggests they were all friends once. Dana and Ms. Rose are arm-in-arm, which hints they were best friends once. Ms. Rose is the girl on the middle-right.