“Double Down”, page 27

My exact thoughts, yeah. A lot of his conceptions of "cheating" seem to come from his peers, and it seems he wound up internalizing some of that, even after all this time has passed.

Alec

Looking back at Chapter 22, it looks like Mike's thought of cheating were due to a bullying Paulo and a jealous Lucy. Now the poor boy is broken by their actions.

Yewsea

*honks my clown nose many times reading this* OUU... It's actually really neat to have Daisy be the one receiving this information and reacting to it, I'm really curious to see what her 'take' will be on this once Mike updates her with all the details...? I think it's refreshing to have another character able to give input on Mike & Sandy's current situation...

Bird Bell

Daisy: How? Mike: By using Jaws & Oddjob in the multiplayer mode in GoldenEye 007. Daisy: Oh.

SCD

lord jesus here we go

Rory

I'm guessing Mike is either referring to that brief period of time where he left the house truly believing his relationship was over, which I wouldn't count as cheating since it really did seem like she was cutting him off, or the whole like... keeping Lucy around thing. Which is kind of up in the air? But since Mike had made things official with Sandy, he had started to show more disdain towards Lucy and then we got the whole December thing... It's possible Mike felt he was keeping Lucy close as long as he did as some sort of contingency plan in case the Sandy thing fell through, and while I do think that's dishonest, Mike just doesn't seem the type to purposefully have that kind of motive. It might also be like how someone else suggested that he's finding a reason why this is his fault and he's counting something like the kiss at the tree as his karma.

Laserlime

https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c14/p30 see my above comment

Ehhh... It's not cheating just because one party ASSUMES they are in a relationship. Their relationship wasn't defined yet prior to that.

Meowtcha

I love Daisy’s reactions here as the truth starts to fight it’s way free.

Leroy Fontaine

@rockfur fox: in chapter 23 he calls sandy to ask if they are in a relationship and she confirmed it so yes it’s cheating

Brittany ann

haha oh no

esinololly

Don’t get started down that rabbit hole Mike. You do not need to justify someone else treating you like shit.

Frankenstein

He didn't cheat on Sandy. He began to consider himself a cheater after the sad events of chapter 22, where this thought was hammered into him.

Rockfur

Mike needs to read some Brandon Sanderson: “Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”

I dont know what Mike is referring to. Can someone remind me if/when he cheated? When he and Lucy kissed under the tree, that was after his fight/break up with Sandy, like 15 min later lol... and he has been so absorbed with Sandy that literally no one else has romantically interacted with Mike other than Lucy. Mike even hated Lucy for a while, so I dont want to say he emotionally cheated either.

Mearcyn

dun dun DUN

Snow

*insert nervous popcorn gif*

April