Jessica, mostly referred to by her nickname Jecka, is the deuteragonist serving as Nicole's best friend. Jecka then becomes the protagonist of the Trilogy finale Class of '09: The Flip Side.

Physical Description

Jecka has long blonde hair, amber eyes, pale skin, and wears expensive "preppy" clothing due to her mom working in a department store, though this is not confirmed due to Jecka's statements of her mom's unemployment; it's theorized she flirts with men to get clothes but is too scared to admit it. When she becomes "emo" (in the route where she works at Hot Topic), she dyes her hair black, and switches her pink shirt to a Blue camisole and the shorts to skinny pants.

Personality

Jecka is a popular high school girl. While she comes across as preppy, she makes it clear that she truly doesn't give a shit. Jecka is often involved in Nicole's life decisions, giving her thoughts on Nicole's actions, serving as a foil to Nicole's character. She has a moral compass and, seemingly, a conscience, showing guilt over her or Nicole's actions. She prefers to stay friends with Nicole even when she doesn’t agree with what she’s doing or saying. Although she is seen as preppy due to the clothes, she is a big fan of the band Mindless Self Indulgence or MSI, an electropunk shock band.

She is noted to having a significant drug problem and prefers to usually take xanax, adderall and oxycodone/paracetamol as well as smoke cigarettes every day before class. This drug problem gets worse when she graduates in the video Jeffrey sent to Nicole, stating that she wanting to do cocaine and "go full out of control and then marry some rich med major who wants to save me".

Her family is implied to be slightly dysfunctional as she's stated in the Re-Up her mom would not function without her father if he were to leave her. She's also said that her mom has been trying to find a new boyfriend/husband for over 10 years but has given up, which tributes to her reason of not wanting to get married.

She is easily manipulated into stuff, as seen in the three white nationalist endings. If Nicole chooses not to go to Mr. White’s room with her, she ends up being manipulated into becoming a white nationalist, even killing Jeffery in one route because he gave up the cult for a date with Nicole. Though, she still doesn’t give up her peaceful attitude towards Nicole, saying that those are all "politics" and that they’re still friends.

Despite all of this, Jecka does possess a moral code. This is shown when Ari becomes straight again (in the Abusive Exes ending) when Jecka questions Nicole's actions after seeing her mess with a girl. She expresses extreme disappointment after seeing that Nicole abused a teenage girl into being straight, and when she asks her for her excuse (which Nicole says that Ari stole her depression excuse), Jecka walks off, saying she should have said nothing.

Relationships

Nicole

The way the two girls meet for the first time depends on the player's choices, but no matter the route taken they quickly establish a strong bond and become virtually inseparable. While it’s depicted many times that the two don’t care for each other that much, Jecka is one of, if not the only person in Nicole's life that she genuinely cares about. Jecka usually supports Nicole and shares some odd morals similar to hers, but is also often depicted as the reasonable one in the duo, having no problem telling her off or scolding her when she goes too far. For example, she shows disapproval of Nicole's behavior towards Ari, and gets very upset to the point of cutting her off when she tries to rationalize selling street drugs.

Jecka's loyalty towards Nicole is depicted differently based on the route taken by the player: she is shown to agree to help Nicole break into the school to destroy the dark room, or accompany her to Ari's house despite the danger associated with the Straight Pride club for example. But cracks in their relationship are revealed in other routes, such as when Jecka refuses to help a homeless Nicole, straining their relationship for good despite Jecka's later remorse. Nicole also lets down Jecka to a lesser degree in another route, coercing her to flirt with her brother.

Despite these challenges and their occasional banter, the two girls genuinely care about each other. This is particularly highlighted in the same route where Nicole purposefully subjects herself to daily detention with the counselor and Jeffrey, both of whom she despises, to allow Jecka to smoke freely outside the school as a way to apologize for her past actions. This act of friendship leaves both of them emotional (albeit, in their own apathetic way), Jecka stating that it's the nicest thing anyone ever did for her.

If Nicole is killed by Coach Colby, she will say to tell Jecka that she’s too cool for her, showing that Nicole admires Jecka to an extent, and cares about her more than she lets on.

Jeffery

Jecka hates Jeffery, not having any guilt when insulting him. It is hinted that she'll sometimes fake-flirt with Jeffery, as mentioned in Class of '09: The Anime.

Emily

Jecka sees Emily as an unhinged maniac, being shown to dislike and actively avoid her. Her only interactions with Emily as per her own accord, is buying Adderall off of her. This view of her extends to such a degree that she warns Nicole about her when Nicole started walking around with her.

Despite her wariness regarding Emily, they seem to be on neutral terms overall.

Kelly

Jecka hangs out with Kelly in some routes when Nicole gets sent to remedial classes, until Nicole came back, in which she promptly dropped Kelly, claiming that she only "sat with her so she doesn't sit alone like the weird kids." She's also seen getting invited to Kelly's parties. During the Slave route in Class 0f '09: The Flipside, they both end up working together at FYE, with Kelly being Jecka's manager. It's also implied that during one of Kelly's parties, both of them made out with each other when Jecka was drunk, with Kelly being surprised when she heard that Jecka was drunk, but claiming that she's not and that she just wanted attention. It's unknown whether that's true or not.

Karen

Prior to the events of Class of '09, Karen and Jecka were good friends during 6th grade. However, after an event that transpired where Karen talked about Harry Potter during an attempt by Jecka to get free cigarettes, Jecka dropped her. However, Jecka maintains a sense of guilt, and claims that whenever she sees her, it's "like a hallucination reminding me of how much of a bitch I am".

Ari

Prior to Class of '09: The Re-Up, Ari and Jecka barely had any screentime together, and were relatively neutral with each-other.

In Class of '09: The Re-Up, Jecka gains a large amount of sympathy when it comes to watching Nicole psychologically abuse Ari, claiming repeatedly how she thought it was wrong, and how Nicole "practically made her (Ari) her pet." This leads to a climax where Jecka genuinely "stands up for her" when she found out that Ari started dating Hunter.

In Class of '09: The Flip Side, they don't have the most screen-time together. However, they kiss in a library in one of the routes. Jecka accidentally crashes into Ari's car while she was drunk driving, leading to Ari's death. Jecka also liked her funeral page on Facebook, though other than that she doesn't show any remorse for it, claiming that it was a result of a series of events that could've been avoided.