Don't whine, it makes you sound five. I'll certainly play professor and student with you, if you enjoy that sort of thing, but you'll have to at least pretend to be a teenager - children are wholly unappealing.

[leans an elbow on the wall, and then leans in a bit closer to Cy] How do you imagine I would be stepping on the toes of your currently non-existent romantic partner? You're a clever man, I'm sure you can figure it out.