that sounds perfect. so essentially she's holding his snake hostage in hopes that he'll relent and let her keep him lol. i'm all about some fun drama, so i'm open to things being unresolved. i'm having it where she's only lived in san diego for like a year, so maybe he was one of the first people she met, they dated for several months, and now they're broken up for...a month or two? i imagine their relationship had a few 4 hour long to one whole day of breaking up before getting back together. she's kind of a pain and a tad on the dramatic side, but that's mostly when she's angry or hurt. let me know if any of this doesn't work, because i'm all kinds of flexible.