Alfie blushed and brushed her kiss off with the back of his hand like he'd do to their mum when she did the same sort of thing, but he did smile a little sheepishly when she sat.
"Yeah, I guess. Maybe." But he had missed her - she could at least make as much sense of things as he could, and with both of them thinking about something they could figure a way out to solve a problem, couldn't they? He couldn't remember the last time they'd had to, or he'd had something that was this serious, or that bothered him this much, but it was easier to think about his problems with dating than it was to think about their mum stuck at home, not able to leave the house. Or their father, at the Ministry, with whatever was happening there.