For a few seconds, she doesn't say anything. Nine months is forever. It's an entire school year. She's going to college here, to college. And she didn't even apply. She hadn't really thought about that yet, about what it meant that they would set her up like that. They expect her to stay. They expect her to stay long enough that going to school would be worth it.
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"That's... That's good, I guess."