Erran laughed a bit at that, looking down at the calm jar, and said, "Um—all right, I need confidentiality from you if we talk about this, please don't discuss it with anyone else, okay?"
It was definitely slightly weird to talk about, but he was determined to be an adult about this, because it was probably good to normalise the fact that not every couple got sexual right away. "Okay, so...where I'm coming from is that when I was out in L.A., I had a lot of casual sex that didn't make me feel good about myself. And it was really hard to be private about it, which messes you up. So Gemma and I have shared a bed but we haven't slept together yet, in that sense. We're going slow with that part. Most of the time we're not that different from you and Juno, we watch movies and hold each other and talk. We both like kissing, she likes when I stroke her hair. And we show affection in other ways. She took care of me when I had the seizure on the island, and yesterday when Jack wasn't using the kitchen I made her pancakes because she felt gross and hadn't eaten much all day. Everyone's relationship is gonna be different, and things change over time, and so long as you both like what's going on then nobody can say you're doing it wrong."