Maeve gives a shrug, lifting one shoulder higher than the other, and keeps her eyes ahead. It isn't as if seventeen has been any worse than the sixteen years before it. If she considers Aimee and Otis, it's actually been better than the years before, even with the rough parts.

Mostly she's not thinking about Erin or Elsie.

"Not sure being eighteen fixes all the things people hate about being seventeen," she points out.