Claudia Rhodes

Claudia Rhodes, a character from the Murder at Homecoming book, is Gabbie Navarro's best friend. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Claudia has brown eyes, dark skin, and black curly long hair tied into a high bun. She wears a transparent sleeveless floral black dress. For her everyday wear, she wears a lavender sweater.

Personality
Claudia is one of the most popular girls in school, and the new queen bee after Gabbie's death. She is a kind and sensitive girl, and very friendly towards you and others. On the surface it looks like she enjoys being the new "it" girl, but there are moments where you can see that beneath her happy facade, she is still having a hard time coping with Gabbie's death.

Murder at Homecoming

 * Chapter 1: Blood in the Water
 * Chapter 2: Keep Your Enemies Close
 * Chapter 4: You've Changed (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 6: Behind Closed Doors (Mentioned; Off-Screen; Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Party Crasher (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 9: Case Closed?
 * Chapter 10: Prisoner's Dilemma (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Run, Rabbit, Run
 * Chapter 12: To Tug at Tangled Threads
 * Chapter 13: Pick Your Poisoner (Off-Screen)
 * Chapter 14: Dance with Death
 * Chapter 15: Prey For Me
 * Chapter 16: Surviving High School

Gabbie Navarro
Gabbie is Claudia's best friend. She becomes the new queen bee after Gabbie's murder, but she still seems to have a hard time coping with her death. In Chapter 6 you find some lingerie pictures of Claudia on Gabbie's laptop, and you assume that they were either for Brett, or that Gabbie was blackmailing Claudia. However, in Chapter 10, Brett says that Claudia never sent him nudes, and that Gabbie and Claudia were spending a lot of time together. He believes that Gabbie was jealous of Brett and Claudia, and that she was trying to break them up.

Your Character
Claudia is one of your suspects in Gabbie's murder investigation. She thanks you for catching the pervert stealing the cheer uniforms. At Gabbie's funeral, you can use your own experience with grief to give advice to her on how to deal with her death, and this can make Claudia trust you enough to let you in on a secret. Throughout the story the two of you are friendly, and you are the only one who sees that beneath her happy facade she is still having a hard time coping with Gabbie's death. While there are moments that her actions seem suspicious to others, you usually sympathize with her and note that it must be hard to be in her place. In Chapter 7, if you play Truth or Dare with Brett and your friends and you choose to kiss Tyler, she is surprised that he would flirt after everything that has happened.

Brett Morris
He's Claudia's ex-boyfriend, and they were together until he was arrested. You note that Claudia never looked as happy as she did being on a friend date with Dylan than being Brett's girlfriend. After their breakup, Brett went on a long rant about how awful of a girlfriend Claudia was, saying she didn't love him the way he loved her. In Chapter 10, he confirms that he sprayed their initials on a wall, and claims that he never hurt her. He says that they fell fast and hard, and that he never met someone who got him the way Claudia did. However, Claudia started ditching him to spend time with Gabbie, and even when Brett needed her and was begging her to be there for him, she wasn't.

Trivia

 * Her character model resembles a female version of Crown Shield from The Royal Masquerade.
 * On August 3, 2022, PB updated the first chapter and renamed her from Claudia Fiorello to Claudia Rhodes.
 * In Chapter 13, it is revealed that she is among the ones who exited the gym around the time of Gabbie's death, with the others being April, Kevin, and Mrs. Jones. Same scene told that other unnamed characters also exited the gym around that time.
 * She shares the same surname as Harrison Rhodes from The Billionaire's Baby.