"Do they have the lottery here?" Jayden asks, and then almost adds a stupid joke about how if they do it'd probably be more a The Lottery sort of thing, but that's a little morbid for the light mood and even he can recognize that. Besides, he's much more distracted by--

"Eight months?" It's been eight months? He'd stopped keeping track a few months ago, but quick mental math confirms it, as hard as it is to believe. Okay. No need to have some sort of existential crisis until it's actually been a year or something, so moving on, just ignore the surprise. "The uh, the new look's workin' for you though. Didn't want to say it before, but I'm not sure grunge was your style."

He's joking, of course. Was it even grunge? Who cares, not like Jayden knows anything about styles, and the sentiment's what matters. Right? Right.