Jo sat alone at Cool Beans under the sun, attempting to write music but producing only doodles in her journal despite decades of songwriting experience. The café radio shifted to Willa Grey’s hit—the song Jo had written in a sangria bar—which sharpened her sense of failure and made the blank page feel mocking.

At that moment, the telepathic voice of "Sasha" broke in, complaining he was tired of Roman Fell’s ubiquitous song "Wherever" playing in the car he was riding in. Jo teased him about having a driver and asked what he was listening to, while she admitted she was hearing Willa’s song. A nearby group of teens noticed Jo apparently talking to herself, embarrassing her into leaving the café.

As storm clouds rolled in from the south, Jo joined the flow of beachgoers and went up to the pier, where she sat and continued the mental conversation. She asked why Sasha disliked "Wherever," and he clarified he was simply sick of hearing it everywhere. Jo probed for a dramatic backstory, which he denied, offering no details.

Jo then asked if her song "If You Stayed" was a love song. Sasha said yes and added, “Every song is a love song,” a perspective Jo had not considered but found resonant. This led Jo to reflect on how love infused the music of her childhood and family—memories of Wyn dancing to "Tiny Dancer," her father playing "Brown Eyed Girl," and Mitch blasting "All the Small Things."

Watching lightning over the ocean and judging the incoming weather as a passing storm rather than a hurricane, Jo felt that she and Sasha differed in many ways but were aligned on music. When the first raindrop fell, she decided to leave the pier and return to the Revelry before the storm fully arrived.