You don't turn 18 going into your last year of high school.
And the MC should have been turning 18 not 19. But I just assume Neil was an idiot and put him in a year later.
Either way Maya and Josy don't act like they were in a relationship for 14 months, an entire summer apart because they couldn't hop on a train is kind of pathetic.
In the real world, yes, 18 is the age most American teens will be when they finish high school, but this is the BaDIK world where the rules are often different. But even in the real world, not every country is the same because it's quite common in many European countries for the high school graduation age to be 18 or 19 because they spend longer in that education system, so perhaps this is another amalgamation of the American and Swedish systems as DPC has said before that this game is sometimes a mix of the two.
Also, Maya's Dad could have been keeping Maya in the house throughout the summer and therefore keeping her from seeing Josy.
they don't give that impression though
I expect a different kind of solidity from a couple that has had a whole year to get to know each other (and attend the same school gives repeated opportunities). Instead we are still here wondering how Maya's father could have prevented the two from communicating in such a hermetic way that they didn't even know if they were together or not anymore
Their relationship was a secretive one, not least of all because of Maya's Dad, so it's difficult to build a really strong relationship when they're so much uncertainty and insecurity surrounding it. We also don't know when Maya's Dad found out, which is something that will hopefully be known at some point.
People assume they've only been apart for the summer, but what if he found out weeks or months before then and pulled Maya out of school? He could have told the school she was unwell and had the school provide material for her to be homeschooled which would still allow her to graduate from that school (as per the picture) because she was still considered one of their students.
Then during the summer he kept her in the home and, from what we know from the game, they were still able to communicate but it would often lead to disagreements and fights between them (Maya makes this clear in Ep 3 when talking to Derek). So really, their relationship was always on shaky ground and it's easy to see how it didn't withstand this pressure from Maya's Dad, and even after Maya got to college, Josy may not have felt like she wanted to see Maya and so that's why Maya didn't hop on a train then to go see her as she sensed this about Josy.
I have a feeling you "throuple" guys aren't going to be happy with how the Josy/Maya/MC situation plays out. I'm getting deja vu from the AL forums when everyone was screaming throuple for the Megan and Melissa path and we all know how that turned out.
Big difference with AL is that the throuple hadn't started yet, whereas we can be properly in one in this game. In AL, the MC could salvage only one relationship out of 3 potential relationships, here in this game we have 4 potential relationships when you consider M&J as counting as 1, so if this game follows the same logic as AL, then M&J is a relationship that can and should be achievable.
It's doomed to fail because there is at least 8 episodes remaining. More story is yet to be told than is already told.
That's why Maya and Josy will break up.
They can very well get back together, but they won't stay together for this entire story.
The daddy drama can't go on much longer, and every other problem the MC is facing is financial so he can't be dealing with everybodies money problem.
If M&J aren't also with MC, then it probably is doomed to fail because he seems to be an important pillar in the throuple, like a missing piece of the puzzle, which is why the throuple seems like it might have a better shot at working out.
no hidden and secret meaning of it, just simple game for fun. 
