"Seventeen," Maeve says. "Not for much longer, but long enough."

Time is a little bit of a mess here, but at least she knows she's only going to be stuck in that Home for the next four and a half months. It's not ideal, she'd rather be on her own now. She knows she could get into all the work necessary to prove it, go through the courts, fill out the proper paperwork and probably end up in her own place before the four and a half months are up. The option exists, she's just not sure it's worth the effort. She doesn't know how much time she would actually shave off those months and she needs to be focusing on her grades.

As soon as she gets back into class.