Laura had reached for some cake, pausing with it halfway to her mouth. "Yes, yeah, I-" she nodded, but she couldn't think of a joke for the moment. After another fraction of a second she shoved the cake in her mouth and looked across at him. When he continued, however, Laura really wished she hadn't picked something so crumby, as she started to choke.
"Did- what-?" she asked. "Did you- um- have you-" she reached for something to drink to hopefully clear the crumbs that were in her lungs now. "Did you meet a nice...boy?" Laura had always thought that Harold was just sexual, but apparently he was a little less. They were best friends, of course, they knew each other well, it was just never something that needed to be disclosed before.