Jo arrived at the Revelry with pizza for a writing session with Sebastian, who had slipped in via the loading dock to avoid attention after the recent café incident. They joked over slices, with Sebastian teasingly admitting he told his manager he was on a North Carolina beach “kissing a girl,” which flustered Jo as they lightly sparred about their two kisses and the idea that they were mistakes.

Their banter turned to image and expectations. Jo claimed she was not “bad boy” material, and Sebastian pushed back, noting he was not a bad boy and revealing he does not drive and avoids highways. Jo realized this stemmed from his past car wreck that led to a long recovery and coincided with Renegade’s disbanding. Sebastian reassured her gently, calling the wreck a “souvenir” he survived.

They acknowledged misjudging each other: Jo admitted she had been wrong about him in their first session, and Sebastian said he was wrong about her the night on the balcony when he angered her. They reflected on how people reduce others to “stories,” with Sebastian dismissing his Celebrity Bachelor cameo as trivial.

Looking around the Revelry, they spoke briefly about love; Jo mentioned her parents met there, and Sebastian observed it would not be a bad place to fall in love. Jo considered telling her parents’ story, but Sebastian urged her to share the new material she had sketched the day before.

At the piano, Sebastian reviewed Jo’s notebook. He liked the idea of D major and a key change, and began testing the melody with axis chord progressions. Jo felt it was too fast; Sebastian agreed to try it slower, perhaps as a ballad, and asked whether her lyric fragment belonged to a chorus or verse and what “getting it right” meant. Jo realized her fragile beach-born inspiration had slipped, and she could not answer.

Seeing her block, Sebastian closed the notebook and proposed leaving to find inspiration elsewhere, saying Jo did not get inspired at the Revelry. After initial resistance, Jo relented and chose a spontaneous destination: a barge known for piniwi margaritas, held together “by duct tape and prayers.” Sebastian was eager to go, and they set off to shift the creative energy.