I will have to disagree here. In my supposition, I already took into account the HoT's being kept in the dark until the last minute possible, but let's remember here, they did not dress normally, it was a fancy party, so they needed to dress fancy, hence Sage would need to give them at least a few hours to prepare. The only way it would remain a secret during these hours with Maya, Josy, Helena, and Heather knowing is if Sage (or Quinn) explicitly told them to remain radio silent.
Maybe for girls like Camilla, Riona, Sarah, Melanie, sure they wouldn't want to get in between anything. But Helena? Heather?
You gotta give me at least Helena, in what kind of a relationship does one paramour keep the other in the dark?
Again we are talking about a modern setting, they have cellphones they can very easily send messages without alerting Warden Sage or Warden Quinn.
Most of them would, But again Helena and Heather wouldn't. Presumably Sage didn't tell anyone which is super weird, just Quinn, until the last moment, and then still forsook the opportunity to just tell Rusty directly FFS WE HAVE SMARTPHONES! You don't need to send a formal letter.
Second, why would you think in the morning it would be any better? It would be worse, they just slept on feeling betrayed the anger would turn into bitterness. They had their initiation ceremony ruined by the HoT's after they took a huge risk to hire them over the pink rose, in the morning it would be a lot worse.
Not go out of the way, but literally, just call theirs SO's to talk about it, Jesus it's weird that they either didn't or they couldn't. You receive some bad news like that you don't hide from your SO, WTF, you tell them directly, Helena not calling to talk to John-boy about it is huge contrivance in this whole plot for me.
Granted the whole plot is useless since, the DiK's run back to the HoT's since they have a hot pussy monopoly on campus, and Tommy goes back to Quinn, due to the fact she has a drug monopoly on campus, leaving all parties exactly where they started.
But yes, it's a huge contrivance that neither Helena nor Heather contacted John-boy or Tommy when they heard about the party change, even if told they that already new. People in relationships don't hide behind other people, I can squeeze my eyes and say maybe Heather would, but Helena wouldn't hide from John-boy over something like this.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, and this deal (Diks and Hots) was brokered by Quinn, which would make her even less likely to be the one to want to screw them over by keeping them in the dark, and as I previously explained it is impossible that this whole situation was kept under wraps on accident. Hence the reason I think Quinn is taking one for the team here.