Surprised, but happy to help a fellow trans girl

Eyes going wide, Kristy drew in a sharp breath. Jacob's heart was beating so fast, she didn't know if that was a good response or not. Finally, Kristy leaned forward and beamed at Jacob. "I'm so happy for you!" Their pizza arrived just then, and as Kristy loaded up a plate with a few slices she asked, "So, guessing she/her for pronouns then?"

Still surprised at how well this was going, Jacob stopped herself from taking her first bite and nodded. "Yeah, I think so." She took a bite, mostly happy with the flavor. She was surprised with how well the olives worked with the cheese and meat, but the sauce at this business always left something to be desired for her. After finishing the bite, she asked, "What else would I use?" After all, she just said she was a girl.

"Oh..." Kristy set her slice down while her eyebrows knit together. "Hmm...you really are jumping into unknown waters here, aren't you?" Nodding her head, Jacob sat through an explanation of gender neutral pronouns and neopronouns, how Jacob could try things and see what fit her best, all while Jacob ate and nodded along. "...a good way to tell is to kind of test them out with a friend. For example," she turned her head and spoke to the air as if someone was sitting at the third seat at the table, "Hello there, this is my friend, they're pretty cool for buying me pizza and I owe them one."

Hearing herself be referred to that way, Jacob shook her head. "No, that's not right."

Nodding as though she expected that, Kristy repeated the experiment, only this time she said, "Oh her? She's a classmate and I'm happy she turned to me for help." Jacob nodded furiously. Being referred to that way...it felt right in a way nothing else had before. "Her name is..." Then Kristy looked at Jacob, a realization dawning on her. "Oh wait, did you want to keep the same name?"

"Gnck-" Jacob had been in the middle of taking a bite, and choked on the food a little before sipping some of the provided water and considering that. "I...uh..." What would she say? After all, she kind of knew what name she was going to pick eventually, right? Patricia. She even knew what she was going to look like, kind of. But she just figured this out less than an hour ago, would it be weird to have a name picked out?

While Jacob ruminated on that, Kristy reached across the table and touched her on the arm. "Hey. It's okay. You don't have to have it all figured out on Day 1." That helped settle Jacob's thoughts a little, and she smiled back at her. Laughing a little, Kristy admitted, "I mean, I sure didn't. Went through...what, four, five names before I landed on this one?"

Nodding absently to that, it took Jacob a moment before realizing what Kristy had just said. "W-wait, you're...?" She looked Kristy over again, from her curling black tresses to her feminine arms and her soft but small chest. Jacob had never guessed...

Kristy seemed to find it funny, raising a hand to the choker at her throat. "Yeah? I thought you knew already, I'm not subtle about it." She lifted up her bag, and pointed towards two of the pride pins. One was pink blue and white, the other five stripes, two of them orange and two of them pink with white in the center. Clearly, Jacob had a lot to learn about all of this. "I thought that's why you thought to talk to me about this."

Suddenly feeling the need to explain herself, Jacob rushed to say, "Well, I don't have a lot of friends, or any I guess, and you're the closest thing to one I have, and you're pretty and girly and I thought you'd be good at teaching me how to girl?" It all came out as a rambling mess, and in the wake of it she was sure that Kristy would roll her eyes and leave.

Instead she laughed. Hard. When she managed to stop herself, half a minute later with tears running down her cheeks, she looked at Jacob and...there was something different about it. Like Kristy was seeing her differently now, and was trying to covertly send some sort of signal. "Well then, I guess I'm your instructor for Girl 101, huh?" She cracked her knuckles on one hand and then the other, while leaning back in her chair. "So, where do you want to start?"