"Probably," she agrees. "But you can't hold it against me, I hated everyone in secondary school."

Not Aimee. Not Otis either, in the end. It turns out she actually hadn't hated many people at all, even though they had been cruel to her, even though she'd been a social pariah. But Steve was popular, like Ruby and Olivia and Anwar, and even though she knows he isn't anything like them, that's also the group he would have hung out with at Moordale.

"You would have been one of the Untouchables," she says, sounding amused. "They were the popular kids."