One of the reasons I like the Bella character is her ‘strict’ character. I also like her sense of humour, which it always irritates me the MC doesn’t get. I think of her not as someone who is crazy, but as someone who is broken. Something happened, presumably with James, that meant she shut down her emotions as a defence mechanism, and she’s never truly dealt with the trauma.
That all said she can’t of discovered the panties until after she helps clean the MCs room. I think she was probably more angry with herself, that she knew she shouldn’t have ’cheated’. She was probably embarrassed that she’d let herself be vulnerable, that she’s taken a step she ‘knew’ she shouldn’t because no one is as ‘good’ as James.
In some ways the Cathy reaction is odd when she has essentially given permission for the MC to date Jill. I don’t think she’s surprised MC is having a relationship with someone else, more the judgment of the MC for carrying out that affair in her, another person he is intimate withs, car.
What if this trauma doesn't exist? What if they've simply argued about a betrayal?
we are shown that normally Bella goes to work by car, difficult to think that she has not found them before
unfortunately Bella's story is stuffed in the empty spaces of the other plots, Bella sleeps at Mc's not because it makes any sense, but because it's then or never...
the scene in the car after the tennis match has one problem, that it has to be universal, it has to fit in every case, and of course it can't make it.
if MC is only interested in Bella it's perfect
if MC is only interested in Bella but has succumbed to the temptation of Cathe... ok it's bitter and contrived, but it's ok, it makes sense
if MC is interested in both Bella and Jill it's cringe like few things.... "I thank you for helping me defend Jill, who you know how much I love her, from the blackmail she accepted because she loves you and that forces her not to see you, but I wanted to ask you why don't you come to my house, just to talk of course, and eventually organize our first date? yes, exactly, just what you can't have for now with Jill, come on it will be sweet!!!"
If MC is a slut, and is interested in everyone including Cathe, he deserves it, but you can't help but think how Bella is as fake as a 3€ coin