[She works there? Maybe he was more fortunate than he thought. He straightens visibly, with sparked interest.

...An eagerness which he reels in a little, when she says that he's going about this all wrong. Jake wonders if that's true, or if this girl is messing with him. (Something tells him she might be the type, from brief first impressions alone.)]

And let me guess, you're going to tell me how or why that is? Because if you do work there, I figure I've just found my ticket in.