She's an adult, regardless, and been through enough she feels secure in her ability to carry conversation with someone a bit older. Cheryl thinks she's more mature than her classmates, anyway.

"I chose business," she assures him. "My parents want to control the future of Blossom Maple Farms, and refuse to see me as a suitable heir. I'll just have to take that future for myself."

She listens to Genesis, then, curious, has to ask, "Do you...plan to get away from them? Your parents? Can you?" She tried, and that failed, spectacularly.