Lafayette gives her a wry, warning look at the revelation that she's met a dude, because Sookie and dudes, that don't always turn out clean, emotionally. But he reaches a hand out to pat her knee, wrapping it over it on top of the blankets.

"You can't go around thinking like that, girlfriend," he says. "You can't view people or relationships based on how long you gonna know someone, or that eventually you got to leave them behind. Everybody leave everybody else behind eventually, believe me. That just the way 'alive' works. But time ain't like money. You can't save it up and be spendthrift about it. The only time you got is this very moment, you know what I'm sayin'?"