one step forward, half a step back
I walked out of 350 early today and thought that, since it was just 2:15 I might as well give James a call and see if he was up for some lunch. Since today was Wednesday I could afford to waste a bit of time. It turned out he had the afternoon off and was at work. I swung by, brought Doug a cup of coffee and had lunch with James. We decided that we would go downtown because I wanted to go shopping and it was on his way home. So we came back to my place, picked up a car, I changed my clothes and we went downtown. Shopping occured, starting with TVs at Future Shop ending up at HMV.
Anyway, that's not the point of the post.
We've somehow fallen into an area of sexual banter. It used to be me making totally inappropriate jokes and James just looking at me funny. Now he's started. For example, we got in an elevator and he said "Hey, what are you doing in here?" My response was "I can make it worth your while" meaning I'd kiss him or something and he said "Even you're not that fast". My jaw almost hit the ground. I wasn't even thinking about that and that is definitely not something James would have said a year ago. There was just a bunch of stuff like that that went on. It's definitely...comfortable. We were talking about a friend of mine who (we think) has a thing for James' older brother. James said that she teases him in almost a mean sense sometimes which he followed up with "unlike us, there's nothing mean about the teasing that happens between us, it's all based on love".
He does a good job but he's still not totally comfortable with the PDAs. Which I guess makes sense. I figure this whole 'girlfriend' thing is still fairly new for him and it's still really unknown territory. I went to kiss him on the escalator today giving him, what I thought to be, sufficient warning but he kinda freaked out about it. He tried to recover by ruffling my hair (something that just made me laugh) but I could tell that he spent the next 20 minutes trying to figure out how to fix it. I guess that's the thing about it, he sees that he screwed up and then tries to fix it. He did fix it. We were waiting for a bus and, when it came, he reached out and pulled me into a tight hug. Definitely a big step for him. He's never been one to initiate any kind of physical contact in the form of a hug. I think a hug is just way too familiar for him. So he's learning.
It's kind of rewarding. I've definitely seen him grow and mature over the past little while. I guess it's nice to see that I'm having some kind of an effect on him. He definitely is cute. Hollie made that point today. We were at work and she said to me and James "he definitely is the better looking of the two brothers". I just laughed and James looked at her. She continued by saying that James' features aren't as well defined as his brother's. I agreed saying that I liked mine and thought that I'd stick with it, which just made James grin.
Anyway, that's not the point of the post.
We've somehow fallen into an area of sexual banter. It used to be me making totally inappropriate jokes and James just looking at me funny. Now he's started. For example, we got in an elevator and he said "Hey, what are you doing in here?" My response was "I can make it worth your while" meaning I'd kiss him or something and he said "Even you're not that fast". My jaw almost hit the ground. I wasn't even thinking about that and that is definitely not something James would have said a year ago. There was just a bunch of stuff like that that went on. It's definitely...comfortable. We were talking about a friend of mine who (we think) has a thing for James' older brother. James said that she teases him in almost a mean sense sometimes which he followed up with "unlike us, there's nothing mean about the teasing that happens between us, it's all based on love".
He does a good job but he's still not totally comfortable with the PDAs. Which I guess makes sense. I figure this whole 'girlfriend' thing is still fairly new for him and it's still really unknown territory. I went to kiss him on the escalator today giving him, what I thought to be, sufficient warning but he kinda freaked out about it. He tried to recover by ruffling my hair (something that just made me laugh) but I could tell that he spent the next 20 minutes trying to figure out how to fix it. I guess that's the thing about it, he sees that he screwed up and then tries to fix it. He did fix it. We were waiting for a bus and, when it came, he reached out and pulled me into a tight hug. Definitely a big step for him. He's never been one to initiate any kind of physical contact in the form of a hug. I think a hug is just way too familiar for him. So he's learning.
It's kind of rewarding. I've definitely seen him grow and mature over the past little while. I guess it's nice to see that I'm having some kind of an effect on him. He definitely is cute. Hollie made that point today. We were at work and she said to me and James "he definitely is the better looking of the two brothers". I just laughed and James looked at her. She continued by saying that James' features aren't as well defined as his brother's. I agreed saying that I liked mine and thought that I'd stick with it, which just made James grin.
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