What Did Hardin Do to Tessa at the End of the After Movie?

Publish date: 2024-06-02

In the finishing of ‘After,’ Hardin’s and Tessa’s dating was once left lovely broken. What did Hardin do to Tessa that left their dating in shambles?

Jamie Lerner - Author

The second movie in the After series, After We Collided, simply dropped on Netflix, and Hardin and Tessa are observed in the starting selecting up the items to their broken courting. We know Hardin did one thing to Tessa at the end of After, but what exactly did he do? Could it have really been so bad that Tessa can’t even forgive Hardin?

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As it grew to become out, we be informed at the end of After, at the side of Tessa, that Hardin used to be lying to her the entire time. At least in the movie (the e-book is a little bit different), Hardin seemed to be the best, romantic, albeit a little bit too intense, boyfriend. He did everything he may to get Tessa to fall in love with him, and because it seems, that was once their downfall.

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Hardin made Tessa fall in love with him.

OK, so Hardin making Tessa (Josephine Langford) fall in love with him doesn’t sound too bad, particularly when Hardin is portrayed by way of dreamy 21-year previous Hero Fiennes Tiffin. However, it’s all a lie. Or at least, that’s the way it started. Just like your vintage Not Another Teen Movie, this does precisely what teenager movies do, via beginning all steamy teen relationships with a dare.

In the starting of After, we see Tessa and Hardin playing reality or dare with a gaggle of peers, and their “pal” Molly (Inanna Sarkis) humiliates Tessa by way of making her divulge she is a virgin. 

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Tessa is then dared to make out with Hardin, but already feeling embarrassed, she decides instead to go away the room. However, right through the movie, Tessa and Hardin start to bond over classic literature, and Hardin sooner or later wins Tessa over. After their backward and forward steamy romance, Tessa sees some incriminating texts between Hardin and Molly, making her think that Hardin is cheating on her.

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What Hardin actually did do to Tessa is beautiful unforgivable.

In reality, one may say what Hardin does to Tessa is worse than cheating. Molly, possibly jealous of Tessa and Hardin’s love, reveals to Tessa the true explanation why Hardin wooed her into becoming his female friend. Molly displays Tessa a video of Hardin all through their recreation of Truth or Dare, pronouncing his new dare would be to make Tessa fall in love with him after which “turn it off as he snaps his arms.”

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So, Tessa leaves. Hardin does truly love her and tries to make an apology, exclaiming he made the video and took the dare earlier than he in reality got to know Tessa, however it’s now not sufficient. Tessa does a horny just right activity of selecting up her own items. She gets on a bus back home, gets a new internship, and does her absolute best to transfer on with her lifestyles.

However, on the closing day of classes, Tessa’s professor offers her Hardin’s final mission, divulging that it’s truly intended for Tessa. She goes to hers and Hardin’s particular place, the lake, to read his apology essay and Hardin is there. 

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Hardin does something even worse to Tessa in the ‘After’ books.

After is in line with a book by means of Anna Todd, who at first wrote the sequence as fanfiction about Harry Styles. It received such a lot recognition that Anna secured a book deal for a five-book collection following Tessa and Hardin’s relationship, so it’s transparent their relationship isn’t over in a single movie. But, the first book in the After series is pretty other from the movie. 

Hardin is way ruder and controlling in the ebook, in an almost abusive method, and in the end, it’s printed that his dare was to take Tessa’s virginity. Not handiest that, however he brings back the bloody sheets to his pals to turn out that he did it. The movie model of After is much more cotton candy and bubblegum than the book: nicer characters, less sex scenes, and a more forgivable dare. We don’t know what to expect with After We Collided, but something’s needless to say: the #Hessa saga is some distance from over.

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