Holy Bacchus
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- Dec 13, 2018
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It definitely takes place during the previous summer. When they're talking on the jetty, Josy says "school's over next year" and when talking about Maya's previous camping trips with her family, Josy asks her, "Are you going next summer?", and Josy says that she plans to "spend that time getting some work experience and earn extra money", which will be a reference to working in the store with the MC.As I said, it takes place sometime before the summer. I tried to figure out exactly when that scene took place, but there's no clear indication exactly when. It could take place at the end of the previous summer (since Josy talks about her job selling strawberries in the past tense), or in the fall, or in the spring; I think we can assume it does not occur in winter.
I don't think they've already got in, but rather that they expect to go there and Maya simply phrases it as though they're definitely in. People do that all the time, and you see it a lot in movies and TV shows where they say, "I'm going to X college", even though they haven't even applied yet, they just expect to get in. Josy's statement is more of a realist's response, one where she's hedging her bets rather than being definitive.One thing that initially threw me is that Josy is already "hoping" she'll get into B&R whereas Maya just says she and Derek are going there. That made it sound like it was the spring, so Maya and Derek were already accepted and Josy was on the wait list. Going over it again, I think it's more an indication that Josy already has doubts about her ability to get into college. It's hard to say for certain, though, because B&R's acceptance schedule is just flat out weird.
Maybe Josy's Dad didn't initially take her phone but heard her talking on it when she called Maya and took it away then thinking she was talking to the person she was with on Saturday and he didn't want her talking to them.It's tempting to think the call Maya got on Sunday was from Josy, but I don't think it fits the timeline. We know Josy's parents got home late Saturday night, because they will interrupt the sex scene if the MC stays with Josy. It's hard to see how they would wait for the MC to return to B&R and chat with Maya before confiscating Josy's phone.