***James***
"I really didn't enjoy that, if I'm honest," Serena says quietly to me once we are finally inside the cinema.
There is a drinks reception going on in the large lobby of the cinema. Theo and I both grab two flutes of champagne off a table for the four of us. I somewhat wish this still had the same effect on Serena as it had the last time we were in London together, as it perhaps would have taken the edge off. I take her to the side, a little out of earshot of Theo and Christa.
"I know. I could feel you getting progressively more uncomfortable as time went by. But...I think you did very well, considering. In view of what I mentioned last night, what part made you feel most awkward about what we have just done?" I ask Serena. She takes a sip of her champagne and considers my qu
