Kieren tries to steer the conversation elsewhere but James isn't done just yet. He wants to be, he almost wants to pretend this conversation didn't happen at all, but now that everything is out on the table he wants to know the full story. Lily would tell him he's prying and being a prat but those have always been two of James's foremost qualities, he knows that already.
"A bit randy?" he echoes, a little torn between laughing outright and being a little disgusted. Sirius is his best mate and James had had to hear all about his sexual conquests in school, but this is different somehow. They've shared a dorm room and a house for most of their upbringing and James thought he knew all of Sirius's sexual fetishes and interests, but apparently he didn't. And now the two of them are together, in Sirius's succinct words, so it must have been more than a shag.
"It's not that I'm not happy for you, Pads," he says in a hurry once he realises that he hasn't said so already. He knows Sirius well enough to know that despite his bravado there's an insecurity underlying his words, waiting for James's approval. "I am, I really am, I'd high five you if Kieren wasn't sitting right there. It's just a shock, is all."
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Date: 2017-01-14 09:45 am (UTC)"A bit randy?" he echoes, a little torn between laughing outright and being a little disgusted. Sirius is his best mate and James had had to hear all about his sexual conquests in school, but this is different somehow. They've shared a dorm room and a house for most of their upbringing and James thought he knew all of Sirius's sexual fetishes and interests, but apparently he didn't. And now the two of them are together, in Sirius's succinct words, so it must have been more than a shag.
"It's not that I'm not happy for you, Pads," he says in a hurry once he realises that he hasn't said so already. He knows Sirius well enough to know that despite his bravado there's an insecurity underlying his words, waiting for James's approval. "I am, I really am, I'd high five you if Kieren wasn't sitting right there. It's just a shock, is all."