Exactly. This project was always intended to be "just" a kinetic novel, not a game. (i.e. no choices) When I got to Chapter 9, however, I couldn't decide whether to tell the "Parker defeats the cops" version of the story or the "Parker throws his lot in with the cops" story. So, I chickened out and decided to tell both.
As
Walter Victor indicates, the "Parker defeats the cops" story is over and done with. That's the "B path." The other path is nearing completion, but isn't there yet. (It's the "A" path, because that was the original story arc that JohnCBB intended.)
Actually, in Chapter 18a he
does. When Melissa starts lecturing Parker about how having sex with someone implies a commitment, he goes off on her precisely about her affair with Mr. Miller. Up until that point, you can think of him as "saving all that info up for when it benefits him."
Yes. It's been established several times in this thread that Parker
can be an idiot in terms of the choices he makes. He's not some "all-knowing wise character." Sometimes he does smart things, other times he makes foolish choices. Like I did when I was 18 or 19.
The distinction s that neither of those characters are ones that, in FF&S, Parker has any form of sexual relationship with. In Chapter 16, however, the question is whether or not someone wants to see Jenna, with whom Parker
has had a sexual relationship, get involved with another guy. IMHO, that's a valid distinction.