Realistically, why that would be a cause of panic, if he´s not into Maya´s path? Realistically, I don´t get why he still has some kind of relationship with Maya if he´s into other Li path, since Maya cheated on him. I know that Maya has a sexy 3D model, but it´s her only good trait. If he´s not trying to sleep with her, I don´t get why they both are still hanging around together. She´s needy and selfish, not the kind of person that an intelligent guy would choose as a close friend.
The same way I don´t get why Sage cares about Maya´s tuition so much when there are way closer friends of her that are selling drugs and prostituting themselves for paying the tuition. Is she blind? If she doesn´t know about the money problems of girls that she lives with and knows for years, like Quinn, Riona, Sarah and Mel, is because she´s a selfish party girl that only cares about herself. There is not other realistic explanation. That´s what she is barely two months before, at the beginning of the school year, when she only cared about finding who "Chad's bitch" was, and for that purpose manipulated the MC, the only guy that helped her when Chat was being an asshole with her in public, and put him into a potentially dangerous situation with the alphas, without a remorse. But suddenly, she becomes Mother Theresa and the most important thing for her is helping a girl that she knows for just a few days... Does it have any sense? Or it´s just really bad writing and character development?
I love this game and some of the characters, and I think DPC has raw talent and imagination... but he knows shit about creative writing. He´s an amateur in that and make big beginner mistakes, like creating characters with mostly negative traits and pretend that the MC and therefore the player should care about them and feel sympathy for some reason. But I suppose that he could work writing for "Rings of Power" or any modern Disney's movie or TV show