"Yeah," she said with a smile. "Louie was just letting me know how it might go, but everything's good."

She took a seat beside him, leaning against him just a bit. "I wanted to talk to you about something, though. I never brought it up because, well, it's a personal thing! But..." She trailed off with a shrug. She still felt a bit bad, now, that she'd not mentioned it earlier.