>>115934377Things get fucky once they enter High School. Dodie goes into simp overdrive trying to get onto the cheer squad, Darren learns that he actually IS good at football and begins morphing into the kind of jock chad he's hated all of his life. Not an awful guy, but a popular normie. Which leads to him getting close to the head cheerleader, who even lets Dodie know that she wants to ask Darren out. One of the recurring points of the episode is that Ginger lacks interest in the whole sports scene, apparently to the extent that the cheerleaders don't even know she's with Darren. But because Dodie is simping so hard, she doesn't say anything to anyone.
Cheating is kind of a strong word since they just sort of flirt with each other
For her part, it's easily the most introspective and remorseful Dodie's ever been, and eventually she writes a letter pressuring Darren to set things straight
Darren breaks up with her and (it could have very well been about to happen anyways but) Ginger immediately almost dies of appendicitis, which is kinda funny. It's actually pretty effective drama all around
Ginger sorta half heartedly has a thing with this one guy she met in detention and is in a band with until the finale
The part that burns my and most other asses is
come the epilogue, it's made pretty clear, although unsaid, that Ginger and Darren DID ultimately end up together, with him wearing a ring and holding a baby with reddish hair. Which makes their relationship this insane back and forth of breakup and returns 
