Padma blushed. She tried not to feel insecure like her professor was placating her. At the same time, it warmed her that it could even possibly be true. “Thank you, Professor.”
She certainly noticed Professor Sinistra holding her hands. The softness of them was as distracting as the warmth. She heard something about kilts and it didn’t fully register. Padma had to pause to think about it.
“Kilt?” she asked. “Did you…I mean, did your help your boyfriend or something and he tried to help with the sari?” It was completely inappropriate to ask a professor about such things but Padma couldn’t help it. The urges created by her crush one out of the ones created by her reason.