Thank you! Everybody seems to forget that the MC has known Maya for like a week and only started to actually get to know Josy just a few days earlier (even if they had worked together over summer). They didn't betray him in any way, shape or form. They kind of betrayed each other, but both of them had admitted things were already finished between the two of them up until Josy came to B&R. They're just a a bunch of teenagers who don't really understand their feelings are all confused. Honestly, Derrick is right when he says MC should take it easy and enjoy being in college while everyone around him is still young and horny and looking to explore. Save the commitment and partnership for real life.
Length of time has nothing to do with it. There is no ticking clock rating your feelings and how people treat you. Neither do their ages, or their maturity level. Feelings are feelings. There is no "why." When we are young some of these are often new so they hit even harder. Your argument supports the reverse of your intention. I gather from your casual dismissal of the girls horrible actions toward the MC that you have never experienced that kind of thing from someone you care about. In that, my friend, you are blessed. Having "walked the MC's shoes" in this with a couple relationships in my early days, I would much rather get hit by a car. It hurts a lot less and heals comparatively quickly.
Both girls actively lied to him. Maya FAR more than Josey. Maya literally demanded 100% and gave 1%. I find her to be nearly as morally bankrupt as Quinn given her actions and profound inability to be honest and discern right from wrong...but I expect in time she outgrow this given the consistently unpleasant consequences her choices bring.
Tip to young men...avoid these types of women like you would "
Aerith with Crabs." Both girls actively and profoundly betrayed him in every sense of the word (again Maya far more directly and callously than Josey). Respectfully, Fireball, I guess you are much more forgiving and gracious than most other people, and that's commendable. I have a friend who is like that who immediately and completely forgives and overlooks every horrible, viscous thing his (rather rotten) wife does to him, up to and including verbal and physical abuse. Any other man would have dumped her long years ago (as her previous fiancé did after just one month of her viscous abuse). But my friend remains loyal, gentle, and loving. Commendable, but he is often quite unhappy.
Beware, Fireball. I would not wish those feelings on my worst enemy.
