"WHAT?!  He most certainly could not, you're [i]nuts,[/i]" He said with a shake of his head.  "That's just...  Nuh-uh, Dumbledore never fought a fekkin' [i]Balrog.[/i]  He only fought a dude without a nose."

The boy grinned victoriously as Sasha conceded to them getting food and couldn't help but laugh at her use of the word 'date.'  Sometimes, she spoke too quickly for herself, but she wouldn't learn her lesson if he didn't tease her at least a little bit, right?  "[i]I'm[/i] a bothersome date?  I'm sorry, have you gone out with you, Sashie?" He asked, sticking his tongue out, "I think I'm a very good date, thank you very much."  They ordered their food and sat down.  James really didn't need much - he'd had a rather large lunch and was enjoying the company more than he was hungry.  His eyes ran over the crowd when Sasha looked out - did he ever look like that?  Dear god, he hoped not.  But at least they were having fun, so he nodded, "Home, yeah."

"Oh god, The Eye...  Don't subject me to that Hell above Earth," He said with a laugh, shaking his head, "I get queasy looking up at it from the ground, let alone the other way.  I can do planes, but for some reason...  The wheels and the coasters...  I just don't trust 'em.  It's not that I think they'll break, it's just that it doesn't [i]feel[/i] stable, even if it is," he admitted.  "Why do you think I dodged as many of those trips as I could when we were kids?  I'm enjoying my dinner, let's not make the guy in the seat below us enjoy it less than I am."

"Do you want some sauce?" he asked finally, seeming rather random.  "Oh, sorry, I mean... for your hat.  They tore the whole thing down - big building up now; they wanted to make classes smaller, but they had more and more kids going...  So they got what they needed and they have a fekkin' [i]campus[/i] now.  Can you believe that?  Like with a quad and buildings and stuff...  Absolutely unfair," He said with a shake of his head, "I'd hardly call our tech ancient, but...  Well, things are going so well out here that it's kind of hard for them not to spend their asses off on stuff like that, y'know?"	

"Oh, speaking of annoying Americans and Asia..."  James started, taking a second to finish his bite, "My cousin, Kendra, you know what happened to her?  Fekkin' Japan.  Like, not kidding, she's an ESL teacher at Tokyo.  She's not even at some hoity toity school, she's teaching kids whose parents can't really afford to send them places where they have a really high curriculum, y'know?  And she loves it.  Keeps trying to get me to go out there and see her, but...  God, the time, and everything out here is so hard to handle.  Plus, I don't wanna leave Nathan behind so I can go live like that all of a sudden and taking him with me...  Well, I love the kid, but I can't take him from his home for so long - he's too young for it," he explained with a shrug.  "Plus, I couldn't stay with her.  I love Kendra, I do, but dear god she can talk.  And she's shown me pictures of her apartment, I'd never fit in there with her hogging all the space!"  He laughed and sighed, relaxing into the bench.  It was nice to catch up, really it was.  Suddenly, he perked up, remembering that he had something he'd wanted to tell Sasha earlier, but it had completely slipped his mind once they started talking.  Not that it was a particularly good or great thing, but it was still something to talk about.

"Hey, you remember that rock, out by our old neighbourhood?"  He asked curiously, "I know you do.  Anyway, I checked it out a while back...  The entire development got finished - didn't take 'em as long as I thought it would.  Whole place looks different, but uh...  It's actually gone - the built right over that spot," He said with a bit of bittersweetness.  It'd be weird, never being able to go back to there...  He shrugged, "It was weird, though...  Part o' me never thought they'd actually go that far.  Dunno why."