"Rrrrreeeeeeeally."

Okay that's getting a little annoying. "Yeeeeeeesss. Rrrrreeeeeeeeeally."

He laughs. "Sorry. That's good to hear, anyway."

"I would imagine! And now I really want to kiss you some more. Want to find our friend the concealing woods, or one of our houses, or what?"

"Well, my mother's home, but I don't think she'd do anything other than raise her eyebrow knowingly at me if I absconded with you to my bedroom."

"I think I could survive a knowing eyebrow-raise."

"Then I suppose I shall show you my place."

"I suppose you shall. Cerberus! Do you want to go back to my house, come with and sleep, what?"

No answer.

"He'll surely find us if he wants to," Sadde shrugs.

"Yeah, probably." He hops to his feet and gives Sadde a quick one-armed hug. "And if we don't get too distracted we can nerd out over magic more too."

"And we could actually, like, get to know each other."

"I find that goes better if you don't try to force it. But... I would totally be in Ravenclaw. I liked electronics and programming before magic happened. My favorite color is black. Bilbo Baggins is bad at planning and it's kinda sad that the space shuttle program keeps getting funding cuts."

"I fluctuate between Slytherin and Ravenclaw," he says. "I would probably like electronics and programming if I had enough money to have frequent access to both. I don't have a favorite color, and not a whole lot of opinions on what Bilbo Baggins is or isn't, but tend to agree with you on the space shuttle program thing."

"...I think I want to try to teach you programming. It's not that hard really."

"Ooh! I'd love to learn that!"

"Warning: I am not a teacher usually."

"But I'm a fast learner and tend to teach myself, I'm sure it'll work out."

"This should probably wait until we have an actual computer... But I can probably explain some concepts..."

Introduction to Variables and the concept of loops and if/then statements! All in vague sorts of terms as they walk, out of necessity, though he does sketch some stuff in his notebook.

Sadde eats it all up, and asks some questions but in general follows the logic very well.

Then he is ready to hear about the common user interface functions, and then later to try to write pseudo code for whatever random program he wants and the next time they visit Terry's house they can translate it into the arcane sigils required by C++ together.

Oh look, they've been walking for a while now.

So they have! Sadde's place is over there, a small apartment building that's clearly not the most expensive place to live.

Terry gives it a bit of a look, but doesn't comment aloud.

In they go, and in spite of small and probably cheap it's well-maintained and clean in a way that speaks of attention to detail and care for what one does. Maybe it's not as ridiculously cheap as it immediately appears.

He lives on the fourth floor, and has his keys. "Moooom, Terry's heeere!" he calls.

Like the rest of the building, the apartment is small but well taken care of. Laura's voice comes from a place that's presumably the kitchen: "Hi, Terry, hi, baby, are either of you hungry?"