the most irritating part about all of this is how there was 0 fucking reason for them to lie about this. At all. If they said they were in a relationship, no one would be surprised because it's FUCKING OBVIOUS. They caught you shopping together, they caught you on dates, they caught you meeting up, why impede on all this progress with a scenario that will make things infinitely more complicated? Absolute retardery, Author are you going to decide if the MC is a genius prodigy or a braindead yes man?