"Nope," she answers, popping her lips on the end of the word, as if she doesn't care at all that she's here alone. As if she hasn't looked at her phone a hundred times while lying in her bed at the Home, hating that little indicator that says her messages to Aimee and Otis have gone undelivered.

"Probably for the best," she says. "Better to get a fresh start without all the stupid high school shit following me."