"Oh. How can you afford a lawyer?"

How indeed.

"Uh, Isabella's family is helping with that."

"Oh, that's nice of them."

"Yeah. Anyway I'd appreciate it if this didn't become common knowledge."

"Does that mean I can't tell anybody, or..."

"Um, don't bring it up if people don't ask, and if they do don't go into detail? I suppose you can tell," and she taps her collar to indicate, presumably, Brian.

"Okay. I don't know why he'd ask though."

"I don't think he would, but I expect you'd feel bad about not telling him if he did or if it came up or just in general, and in any case it's not like he can do much with the information."

Nod nod.

"And since we're on topic, how's that going?"

Jackson assumes a dopey smile. "Brian's great."

"D'aww! Tell me more!"

"...like what?"

"I dunno, what he's like, stuff you do, that kind of thing."

"Last week his company rented an amusement park and he brought me. And I said I'd never been on a roller coaster and he said if I went on a roller coaster with him he'd get me a cotton candy. So I did."

"Awwwww! ...his company? Wasn't he in high school?"

"He has an internship kind of thing. I guess if you rent the whole park it doesn't cost any extra to let the interns in."

"Oh, gotcha. Well, that's just adorable."

Jackson giggles and touches the tag on the collar self-consciously.

She giggles, too. "Everything otherwise alright?"

"Yeah. Oh, I was going to tell you but then you were gone, Brian makes me go to therapy."

Well now Sadde admires Brian even more. Go Brian!

"That's great, is that working out alright?"

"It's okay I guess, I still don't think it's that important really."

"Well, worst-case scenario you've lost a couple of hours per week finding out that it's not important."

"I guess, yeah, Brian was like 'it's free, why wouldn't you go even if your life were perfect'."