Fake Love or Real Friends?

Is a friendship worth rethinking when a friend is dealing with your past 'situationship'?

The go-to guide to millennial survival, Grown-ish, has returned back to where we left it, on some bullsh*t. Zoey left off the winter finale with her father Dre down her throat about how she has been conducting herself during year two of college.

Then there was Pops g-checking (grandpa checking) Luca over his kimono...and what he was doing with his granddaughter. Let's not forget Zoey's collegiate career scare; C's get degrees but not that 'c' boo.

We pick up with Aaron running into Zoey and somehow assuming that Zoey recently discovered about him and Ana's sneaky deaky relationship. Kind of self absorbed but I mean if you have gotten this far into the show you know that, well that's Aaron. Quickly Aaron regrets even bringing up the fact that he and Ana exist because Zoey was definitely not distraught about them. Before Ana could brace herself for what is about to come down the pike, Zoey is in the apartment and as they cross paths, seemed aloof to the situation at hand. Until she gets to her room and basically loses her sh*t

Looking back on the first half of the season or school year shall I say, everything was falling down around Zoey. Love life is like a seesaw, friends were not putting up with her dippy personality and self-centered actions, and her daddy was/is through with her. Adding betrayal to this sh*tty cocktail of life will only make someone throw up, literally and figuratively. When sh*t hits the fan from multiple sides of the room there is only one direction from there, down. In the space Zoey is in you're either going to cry in sadness/frustration, scream out of anger/frustration, or get sick, and that is exactly what she did; fell down and earl'd in her garbage can.

The gal gathering was initiated within the apartment and the twins plus Nomi came with what they have best, quick wit and amazing banter. Jazz and Sky come out the gate ready to name Ana a snake and Nomi was there to play devil's advocate with a pinch of motivational coach; only to help herself sleep at night not worrying if Zoey would kill Ana or not.

Everyone (even Vivek) classifies Zoey and Aaron's romantic connection as a situationship. A situationship is a relationship that's not quite official, but something definitely more than friends, according to PowerofPositivity.com. In some of the friends' eyes this is breaking girl code and disrespectful (in Aaron's case). Both parties crossed lines that the rest of the friend group wants to be fixed soon.

According to GentWenty.com, girl code is the unwritten and often unspoken set of rules/ethics that exist between a girl and her best friends. Ana believes she didn't break girl code because Aaron and Zoey didn't have a 'real' relationship. In today's time a situationship is honestly just a trial run relationship without the commitment. If you want to be frank this is just like her and Aaron; they aren't together so would it be wrong for the next friend to do the same? What is the girl code between you and your closest friends? Are situationships off?

To Zoey Johnson that is a hell yes, but when she posed the scenario and how she felt to her boyfriend it went downhill. Luca was not here for Zoey being pissed at the fact that her best friend and roommate was messing with her old situation and told her to exit his space. Now that you established that your old thing was just a situationship and girl code is still broken,

should you still be mad even if you're in a relationship at the moment? Should the situationship be taken that seriously if you're with someone that makes you truly happier than before?

Vivek shakes Zoey's mental when he points out that the friend group they belong to is all they have on such a big campus and an even bigger world. These young adults have been doing trial and error with adulthood since they met each other. Would it be worth it to just throw it all away and move past the family aspect of their bond? Zoey did. Did a rotation around campus to come back and tell Ana,

"You're just the girl I live with." Yikes.

Closing this out with some answers. Aaron and Ana are, in all technicalities, a situationship. They wanted something but was scared to tell Zoey. They knew they were wrong from the beginning because throughout all their escapades they would say, "What about Zoey?"

Girl code for every friend group I have been apart of and still apart of is that all old flings, dings and things are off limits. If you don't respect what I had with that person then you don't respect the friendship. IF I am in a relationship while the friend is being sneaky deaky just know that the hurt and anger I would exert to both parties would now be delegated to the friend and only the friend. The way Zoey asked multiple sources about the problem that was posed and then turned around to only tell Ana their friendship is no longer a thing and she will move forward to act as if she's some random bitch in her space is through and through a Pisces move and I stan for this behavior.

See y'all next week.