Isabella glances at James, taps her absence-of-ring: do they mention that?
"...Congratulations," says Chris. "Sorry I missed the wedding."
"I'll have to look at them sometime. Maybe not now, though. Now I think we should be working out a plan for your immediate future and then heading home."
"So I'll move to Arizona, and you and - James - can go to school together - are you going to want to change your name? Or anything else?" she asks James.
"My legal name can stay. I don't have a problem with being a girl for most purposes and I think I'll be happier if I grow up into the same body I had the first time around. But between me and people I'm close to like you and Isabella, yeah, it's James."
"For now, yeah. I'll probably wind up playing it by ear with Charlie, see if my accent slips or something."
She checks to see that they both have seatbelts on, then pulls away from the house. Driving driving.
It kind of is, yeah. After a minute, James reaches over to hold Isabella's hand.
"I think I'm going to tell Charlie. The notebook should do it, but - if you wanted to back me up -"
"Would bringing my magic chess set into it help anything?" wonders Chris.
"Yeah, maybe. That way it looks less like a couple of kids played pretend and decided to pretend harder."
"Sure, then. Although I think I'll leave the actual chess set at home."