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we are talking about 2 days not monthsThey're 18. A few months of having the hots for someone makes a big difference. 30 years down the line, things feel less monumental, but man, I still remember all my crushes from back then!!! Add to that, Josy's relationship with Maya was so fraught, and everything with Tremolo was always easy. The psychological impact of that makes a difference. She was very invested in her relationship with The MC. Much more so than any of the other LI's.
For Maya, he was a emotional anomaly, and an addition to her existing relationship with Josy. But her primary attachment was always to Josy.
For Sage, he is a rebound - one so good, she will consider a LTR with him, but she needed convincing.
For Isabella, well, we don't know exactly what he is, because we don't know her whole history yet, but he is taboo, and she is hesitant. She's been hurt before, worse than Tremolo can hurt her.
Jill is naive about relationships. (Of course she is - she says right in her path, she's never had a boyfriend before, and she still buys into the whole story book bull shit of happily ever after.) She let herself get far too involved with MC for where they were at, but she wasn't coming out of the kind of pain Josy had.
But for Josy, he was an island of joy in a really awful and scary situation. And she was thinking of him like that for a long time, even if she didn't know it yet. There is good reason the two worst reactions are Josy and Jill. Jill was making too much out of it because she didn't know better, but Josy had longer to build it up, and was in an emotional hole to start with.
2 days that we saw almost entirely in the first chapter
Zoey has known MC for years, Josy talked to MC 2 days before Maya and the other LIs