This only happens if you are on Jill's path. There is no requirement to be on Jill's LI path to get onto Bella's. Once you befriend Jill, up through the first tennis date, do not do anything romantic or touchy-feely, and Jill will comment to Bella several times that there doesn't seem to be a romantic interest from the MC. So you can't be seeing Bella behind Jill's back if there was nothing going on.
I just tested it by going full Karen against Tara and Nick (just to be safe) and didn't invite Tara to the event and what we thought is true:
Under the Christmas tree in the gardening room, there is a present you can click on to get money.
I don't believe so, as a couple of my hardcore CHICK playthroughs I looked at it, and don't recall anything tracking it. That was a lot of BaD variables ago though, so not 100% sure if I'm remembering correctly. It's definitely not tracked as stolen, like Jill's money.
It doesn't really matter what path we're on. Bella is capable of doing something like that, and we've seen it, which is completely unlike her. There has to be a very serious explanation for her behavior, because it's so out of character. If I were writing a game, I'd make the Bella/Jill routes mutually exclusive, and so far I don't see any other goals than mild drama.
Nah screw Nick, he has said the DIKs would be better off with Vinny since the beginning.
Biggest red flag for me was outing the Bella secret relationship with basically zero pressure after agreeing that he wouldn't say anything about it.
But that's not a distinction Sage makes there. She is talking in absolutes
Yeah I am always nice to Tara as she is the only one that actually come and apologize
As awesome as Sage is, that point is still valid regardless of her intentions. Once you "sit on that dick" you don't go back to friends, you either get promoted or fired. So there should be no alone time between her and MC if that's the case.
Fuck Nick, I would vote to give his room to Derek
It's specifically whether you've invited Tara. Attitude isn't included, so MC can be initially an ass to her, but change his mind during the episode:
$ mc_info = ["{size=-1}Pull a mean prank{/size}","ep11_pp_kp_prank_event_label","{size=-1}Let them handle it{/size}","ep11_pp_kp_boot_event_label","{size=-1}Confront Kylie & Penny{/size}","ep11_pp_kp_confront_event_label",not ep11_invited_tara]not ep11_invited_tara is the decision switch.
It's bad enough that he fucks Tommy's girl behind his back (even if she came onto him), but throwing MC under the bus to cover his own ass and snitching on MC with regards to Bella...Now that's the ultimate dick move.
I do in my Dick other road
While yes that is true about what she said, however Sage isn't like that compared to Zoey. Sage sat on that dick, but as soon as he entered a relationship, she is off limits. But like what I was saying originally, Zoey did not like that the MC was already in another relationship and still shot her shot.
If you look at the entire writing as a whole, you are right yes. As an entire body of writing, there's a HUGE number of discrepancies and holes that don't add up. And yeah, forced drama is a big thing in a lot of those issues.
Helps to try and keep things "sane" in my headcanon.