"Not negative, no. Just..." Formal? He wasn't sure if that was it. "It's not meant to be negative. I call my teammates by their surnames on a regular basis." James shrugged, "It's just how we do things." He chewed on the end of his quill. The question still remained: Why did he keep calling her by her last name? Perhaps it was that calling her Lily felt too intimate? Or perhaps he was just lazy, and not particularly quick to change his ways. After all, he'd spent so many years calling her Evans.
"I suppose it is. Difficult, I mean. Though, I'm not sure why."