Jackson is there!

Jackson looks like he may have had some sort of near death experience!

...well it's not usually that bad. He walks up to Jackson's table. "Hi?"

"H-hi."

"How're you?" he asks because "Are you okay?" is tired and used by now.

"I was like thisclose to cheating on Master and I'm scared."

...well that's potentially interesting. "With whom?"

"I went out wandering around and I met this dom watering his garden and it was laundry day I had a high necked shirt on and he hit on me and I didn't tell him and - and -"

"...and?" he invites, trying not to sound hopeful. After all, surely doms like Mason are a statistical oddity, right?

"And I had my belt on so, but, but I really wanted -"

"Him?" he hazards.

Nod.

"Did either of you get either of the other's contact information?"

"...I know where he lives..."

"Yeah, but—never mind, did you two talk about anything or was it just, cute dom flirt with you, you say thanksnothanks, you go on your merry way?"

"He wanted to know why I was wearing long sleeves and I said I had stuff in the laundry and, and he was nice but I don't even know if he was actually hitting on me, probably he wasn't, people don't -"

"People sometimes do," he murmurs, trying to keep the smile from his voice and lips.

"Well he probably wasn't but he was nice."

"Mmhm." Now how to navigate this in a way that won't result in Jackson just running back to Mason? "You could see him again," he suggests.

"I dunno what I'd say."

"I don't, either, I don't know him," he shrugs. "The basic instructions for a first interaction are typically showing interest in what a person likes and does and stuff. And for flirting there's usually eyelash batting and saying 'sir' a lot."

"I - I'm not supposed to -"

"Oh, I know, it was just a general comment on how these things are done," he shrugs. "It was a non-negligible part of how I started flirting with Isabella." Of course, he was a bit more forward than that, and he did get a crush the size of the moon on her, but still, it's the principle of the thing.

"I can't cheat on Master I don't know what he'd do."

"Chatting with a new person isn't cheating, even if that person happens to be another role," he points out.

"...but if he told me to I might."