Rebecca MacPherson

Rebecca MacPherson, better known as Becca, is a minor character and later minor antagonist. She is a girl attending the Sunnyvale School District, a popular and beautiful individual who revels in the attention. She is a cheer captain for the Sunnyvale Rattlesnakes in high school, until she moves away from Sunnyvale to Atlanta in the tenth grade.

Becca develops a crush on Scott Camacho at the start of the third grade, which only intensifies as she grows older. She attempts numerous times to gain Scott's affections, and while Scott is nice to her and considers her a friend, he seems oblivious to her blatant attempts to woo him. Though Becca is a major headturner for a lot of boys, she never actually ever takes a boyfriend with the hope of gaining Scott's love. She is considerably ignorant of Scott's best friend, Richard, and even condemns him for his unkempt appearance and gloomy attitude. In high school, in the weeks before the Winter Prom, she even tells Richard (without Scott being aware) to stop hanging around Scott all the time, since his "bad attitude" would rub off on him, and making his fragile mind believe he was harming Scott. Richard as a result completely avoided Scott for weeks, much to Scott’s dismay, and while Rebecca took the opportunity to get closer to Scott, she quickly realized that Richard’s absence made Scott even more worried and miserable. Hoping that he would snap out of it eventually, she continued to attempt to gain his affections to no avail.

Shortly before the Winter Prom in 1985 -- and shortly before she moves away to Atlanta -- Becca finally verbally confesses her love for Scott by asking him to prom, wanting to maintain a long-distance relationship when she leaves. Scott, having an intense crush on Richard, is stunned and politely declines. Becca immediately becomes enraged with Scott and insults him, mockingly suggesting that Scott is, quote, "too busy being a f-g with that hoosier trashpile" to notice her. In a fit of rage and grief, she runs away from Scott, but is struck by a car in the school parking lot and is severely wounded. She is flown to a hospital in Dallas and is never seen again due to her family moving away.

Richard, having believed Scott to have a crush on Rebecca for many years, was alarmed to hear that Scott had declined her. This prompted the two to finally talk and Richard revealed the abuse he had received from Rebecca, to which Scott was horrified.