Well, I have to pretty much restart and speed through the game. starting Vals path at all just makes things waaaay too messy trying to have the harem of the four girls. The timeskips are partly to blame. Like given no chance to tell everyone everything before it blows up in our face, then after see the trouble of secret caused be march happily on keeping another. So fucking stupid
Turns out turning down Val at ever chance fucks up the timing for events for one of the other girls so you don't offer for her to move in with us and the other girls. Should still be on her path, but she missed a pretty huge event by not having moved in as soon as she did before. kinda fucked if I keep Val for a time and fucked if I don't