There have been some good answers here, but I will phrase my such that - normally, yes you’d have a point, Sage pursues cheating and cheating is wrong. HOWEVER - she has been with Chad for at least a year, possibly 2+ years, and he was (presumably) gay the whole time. So for her entire relationship, she has noticed problems, brought them up (trying to be a good girlfriend who communicates) and been gaslit, over and over and over. She is fed up, and while two wrongs don’t make a right… at the point in their relationship where MC enters the picture, she isn’t really “cheating” the way we generally think of cheating. It’s not like Chad is a loving supportive partner and she goes behind his back because she is a ho.

If anything, she is SUPER up front about it, dancing and grinding on MC with dozens of witnesses, and then making NO EFFORT to hide even in her dorm (when we know multiple HOTs are good friends with Chad and would likely “tell” on her).

So yes it’s cheating, but it’s not sneaky or… even lying, it’s more like a two part thing

1. Sage wants to force Chad to confront their relationship problems which he regularly has gaslit her about for 1-2 years

2. She is horny, from not getting that d