"We talked," Dimitri says hastily, hand clutching around empty air somewhere near his stomach. "There was- a discussion. Two of them had known me for some time, after all, which made it somewhat awkward when I..."

A pause. He's trying to figure out how to say I got into a relationship by complete accident because I wouldn't have even made a move for a decade but the other person picked up on my homoaffectionate nature very quickly and I cared more about reassuring them than my original plans.

...He gives up.

"We talked," he finishes, after a moment, awkwardly.