It helps. It helps to be pulled in a different direction, to talk about the issue from a less direct angle. To work through the hurt and the confusion and the tangled up emotions a little more easily.

"...what'll Elisha and Mother do when I do that, then?"

She's a very mature young lady. She also hasn't been socialized in the most completely successful way for entire developmental awareness.

She might not have actively realized that this is about a boy.