Dennis absolutely despises Garcia. Not because she’s loudly fucking his roommate when he’s trying to sleep or study, though he’s not a fan of that.
He hates her because he can hear Santos crying late at night and already knows who is to blame. Santos has rose colored glasses around her, but he doesn’t. He can see how cruel she is to his best friend.
He hates how Garcia never cares about how Santos feels, how she walks all over her just because she can. He watches and realizes that Garcia genuinely sees Trinity as less than her, like she’s nothing more than, as she so aptly put it, a stress ball.
He learns to cook Santos’s favorite foods and listens to her rant over bowls of Sinigang because she deserves to have at least one person who cares like Yolanda should. His guard is always up around the older woman, loyalty to his pseudo sister making his blood boil.