"I care but I can live with this. It's nice to stroke when it's this long." James debated saying more but his nerves got the better of him and as much as he wanted to just subtly put the moves on him and hope he'd notice, all he ever got was more assurances that he didn't think James was into him and that was so frustrating. He was! He just didn't know how to express it and whenever he tried to, it came out badly and he ended up looking dumb.

Some people found it easy to express their feelings. James was not like some people. "Are you going to keep working tonight or is this for the crazy inventions?"