"Yeah, but it's not like you mean everything that comes out," Brinley said, "And maybe he's just sensitive about it. I'm sure if he stops and he thinks, he'll realize that you weren't, you know, mocking him or something. You're not about that, Kea. We all know that." Or they should. Some people had a hard time seeing or remembering that sort of information when people were feeling sensitive.
It was what they were going to have to do and hope for now. That Jackson would understand Kea's honest mistake and remember that they weren't just teammates, they were all friends. Even though sometimes Brinley felt like everyone could get caught up in their own lives pretty heavily. She shrugged, "He'll have to wake up to that. Otherwise, I will stage a damn intervention."