- Mar 19, 2020
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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.Bella would have found them on the car floor the very next time she used the car (the next morning most likely), put two and two together (and presumed that the mc fucked Cathy), put them in the glove box to confront the mc, and decided just how she wanted to confront him.
Given how Bella reacts over every tiny little slight, it's amazing she was so calm in that scene.
I'd love to see her reaction when she first discovered them and realised what happened. She probably went ape shit but then by the time she confronted the mc, she was back to her cold, calm, axe murderer composure...
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.