Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.
...directly and honestly. "And, um. Emotionally?"
"Well, I'm not in love with you, but I like being around you very much and want to kiss you, which I was imagining to be enough to be getting on with?"
"Oh, I don't mean—I mean, yeah, that's fine, but like. If you fall in love with me that's great, but I understand that's for later. I mean, are we closer than before? Can I ask you about more personal stuff? Can I bug you more often?"
"Have you been sitting on personal questions you really want to ask me? ...Have you been refraining from bugging me?"
"Well, you can ask anything you want but I'm not promising a complete window into my everything at this time, and you may step up the bugging me until I tell you to back off."
"...whaaat about. Um. Physically? I mean, will we always have to kiss with the, uh." He gestures at her. "Armor there?"
"No. Do you want me to get more huggable right now or is this just a general question?"
So she shrugs out of her armor, which comes off pretty easily once she has made it clear to it that it is to shoo. Under it is jeans and a t-shirt and socks.
"Did you mean the part where the bed's a step too far?"
"That was mostly verbal jousting without pausing to think about whether it would actually be or not."
more kissing!
"This is way better when the other person doesn't disappear if I pay too much attention."