Luckily, Jimmy hadn't the slightest idea of what 'doing boyfriend-type-things' was, besides being even better friends and maybe even holding hands in public. He hadn't even tried to kiss Artie back when the other mutant kissed his cheek, too busy blushing bright pink - almost as pink as Artie was when Jimmy's mutation was in On Mode - and ducking his head to give a slow embarrassed kind of awkward laugh because just before that, he was certain, almost positive, that Artie was about to say no. The look on his face was not at all what Jimmy had been hoping for. In fact it looked like Artie was disappointed and it had wrenched Jimmy's guts to see his friend's face fall like that when he finally got up the courage to ask what he wanted to ask. But then Artie had nodded his head and kissed his cheek and Jimmy was a little stunned and confused.
He paid close attention to what Artie was signing, fairly sure he knew what the sign for "slow" meant, especially when it was further illustrated by the pulling taffy motions and then the pictogram. Jimmy studied the cartoonish images of them riding the turtles with the finish line far away. Slow. Did he mean Jimmy had been slow to ask him? They had to go slower before he would be his boyfriend? No, Artie had already said yes to that. Well, nodded his head which meant yes. Jimmy was still blushing a little at the kiss to his cheek that had come after that, too. But what was slow?
"Slow," he intoned, meeting Artie's eyes and furrowing his brows slightly. "Okay... We're slow."