Jackson gets food, over those seconds. Lasagna.

More seconds?

Ugh. Sadde might just end up with negative social capital if he interacts exclusively with Jackson for the first few days of his stay, but whatever. Is Jackson too far for Sadde to just call him over?

If he's willing for the entire cafeteria to hear him he can definitely get Jackson's attention!

Ugh no. He'll just get up and quickly scoot over to Jackson until they're close enough that he can get Jackson's attention without literally everyone hearing him. "Hey, Jackson. Come have lunch with me?"

Jackson pauses to consider this offer, then goes over to Sadde's table. He even sits in a chair without having to be told!

Oh good! "How're you?"

"Fine," says Jackson. He takes a forkful of lasagna.

"Done anything interesting since I last saw you?"

"Not really."

"Mmhm." Eat eat. "I got a job at the library."

"Why?"

"'Cause I don't have any money."

"Does your dom not buy you stuff?"

"She's not my dom yet, we've only been on two dates, but I mean, I can't have her buy me literally everything I want or need. And sometimes I might want to buy her stuff, like yesterday we went to this cute little cactus museum and there were cute little cacti in the gift shop and I wanted to give her one."

"Oh."

"What'd they say about that?"

"Didn't. The librarian barely looked at it, and I didn't want to draw any attention to it, I'm sure it'll be lots of fun Saturday morning when I come for training. I might have to demonstrate both things, won't it be nice."

"...what, are you going to bring in me and Isabella or something and act different at both of us to prove you can switch?"

He laughs. "I could just act differently at them. Honestly I have no idea what they'd take as enough evidence, there are subs that can act at least somewhat dominant and vice-versa. They might just go 'oh he's confused' or something, which is of course just typical."

"How sure are you you're not? I read somewhere that lots of people think they're switches before they're twenty and then realize they're not."

Shrug. "I'm sure I'm not confused now. Just because someone's a switch when they're a teen and then not a switch when they're older doesn't mean that they weren't a switch then, there's no reason why my role should be fixed forever. I know that right now I'm a switch, and what I'll be when I'm twenty is completely not the library's business, since I won't actually be here by then. And I'm already pretty sure I won't settle as boy or girl at any point, I've been both since I was little, so it'd be... in-character not to settle as one role or the other, either."