"I kinda want Brian to tell me to break up with him."

"Well... then I suppose you could go see Brian again? And try to let on that you want that?" Because if Brian does it of his own volition he's probably not much better than Mason, Sadde doesn't say.

"...maybe."

"Maybe?"

"That's what I said."

"Yeah, I'm wondering why the uncertainty."

"I just don't know if I dare."

"But you want to. And he might've been flirting with you and might want you back."

"Might."

"And if he wasn't, no harm done, just a new, cute friend."

"I'm not actually supposed to have dom friends."

"Presumably I don't count due to switchiness and slash or Isabella."

"I said 'what about Sadde' and he said you were fine."

"Well, okay, so, uh, you could talk to Brian and if it turns out he wasn't hitting on you not become his friend?"

"Maybe."

"And the uncertainty here is because...?"

"You're really annoying sometimes."

"...sorry. Is it because of the way I phrased that or should I not have inquired at all? Should I just leave you be?"

"You ask a lot of questions and you never actually understand the answers so you just ask more."

"I... can't apologize for not understanding the answers, if I had a way to do it I wouldn't ask more questions."

"It doesn't seem like you're getting any better at it or anything."

"I'm not sure how to get better at drawing meaning from an answer like 'maybe.' And also I don't really care to try to guess much, because guessing wrong is costly and not very conductive to mutual understanding."

"You could get better at taking maybe for an answer."

"...yeah, that's a thing I could do, if you prefer I do that."

"If I had a lot more detail besides maybe and I wanted you to have it I could just say it," Jackson points out.