Politics is... very delicate. My father spent a lifetime trying to hone his ability to please the rest of the House of Lords, yet always fell short of their unspoken and -- if you were to ask me, unreasonable -- demands.
No, not in the least. I know the rules for how you conduct yourself are completely different -- and I can recognize them in you. I just... cannot yet emulate them myself.
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Politics is... very delicate. My father spent a lifetime trying to hone his ability to please the rest of the House of Lords, yet always fell short of their unspoken and -- if you were to ask me, unreasonable -- demands.
I'm not fond of it, but I am not unaware, either.
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[...scoots a bit closer] Is it entirely too forward to hope perhaps I'll pick it up from you?
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Don't worry. No matter what ends up happening with...
[motions toward where they were standing for make outs]
...I will definitely still be your friend.
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...I am somewhat selfishly glad to hear the topic is not entirely closed, unless I misunderstand your use of the conditional.
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There's no reason to jump to conclusions, right? Like I said before, we're not even dating. For all we know we could be entirely incompatible.
[kind of sounds like he already doesn't entirely believe that's possible]
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I suppose it's possible. Though, I expect it might have come up at least once, before now, if that were the case.
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