Good work so far Nyx. Gonna have to say this, but if you keep injecting hot chicks into this without a harem path, you're being cruel. Good work though.
Interesting reads in this thread. I'm going Lexi path. I don't think a lot of people give her a fair shake. It seems she has always felt something for the MC and when she met him on the plane and realized who he was, it became unstoppable to her.
I see her as subordinate in her friendship with Erynn. I can't fault her for wanting to maintain her friendship with Erynn and also to try and achieve what her heart wants. But as the subordinate, she is supposed to sit there and acquiesce to Erynn's changing views on the MC regardless of how she's felt all this time.
So far we have only MC and Lexi's recollection of what happened on that day way back when, or at least that's all I have seen so far. Would be nice to get an omniscient view of what really happened. But to me, from what I have seen, in a just world Lexi is more deserving of her desired outcome than Erynn. That's my opinion on it.
A few are painting her as a liar and deceitful and I do not think that is justified. Sure, she knows what Erynn's shifting moods are, but hers haven't changed. So she keeps her interactions with MC to herself. She doesn't tell MC who she is because after listening to MC on the plane, she sees that MC thinks of her, Erryn and Ethan as the mean kids that had a hand in breaking his heart and laughing at him. MC selectively forgets that it was Lexi that went after him. Lexi is in a bit of a pickle here. So she didn't go announcing to everyone this and that. So what? Clearly MC is still that 13 year old kid who only see things one way as evidenced by his totally one sided blow-up at Lexi when he found out. MC is an emotionally immature individual. He did not give her a chance to speak or say how she feels.
The 1000 question game revels this:
"Are you seeing anyone?"
"It's complicated."
Let me translate this for y'all... when a woman says "It's complicated." = "Yes, I am in a relationship. Maybe it is dead and I want out of it or maybe I'm a cheating whore trying to have it all. I'm not giving you a straight answer. If I wasn't in one I would have just said 'No'."
It doesn't matter that Melissa said she's single. That can mean that Melissa doesn't see Erynn's relationship with Ethan as legitimate. However, Erynn is clearly in a relationship. Maybe it is a toxic one, but it is one. Two things prove this. Ethan gets mad seeing MC leave Erynn's apartment (who doesn't get mad when they see another man leave their GF's apartment?) and Erynn throws Ethan's lie in Lexi's face. Clearly Erynn has a claim on Ethan and Lexi isn't allowed to be with Ethan either. Erynn has been in a 5-6 year relationship with Ethan. Erynn is a hottie and no other fella would ask her to the Prom? She went with Ethan because they are a couple. Now that MC is older and back in the picture, Erynn is re-writing her history.
So Lexi's choices are Erryn gets MC as her side piece and she has to suffer regardless of what she wants or even what the MC wants. She is supposed to sit there and let Erynn piss on every tree. Or, she follows her heart and goes after MC. Fuck Erynn, she has a fella. Too bad she picked a tool.
Lexi is a complex one. Good job on her, Nyx.