[There's a number of things running through Sycamore's head, in terms of this particular dilemma, but one thought has currently overridden them all; this sounds like Yashiro. The talk of promiscuity, the lack of shame, the bad reaction when offered emotional intimacy (especially from someone who wasn't Doumeki)...he knows that these two know each other, so should he just...ask?]

That gesture...it's fairly intimate, mon ami. Perhaps your friend simply likes to keep things behind closed doors, no? Or it could be that he's fine with sexually intense encounters, but anything emotionally intense turns him off. Especially since the the pair of you are not romantically - the key being 'romantically' over 'sexually' - involved.

[Sighing, Sycamore takes another sip of his wine - he's talking like this is Yashiro, and honestly - it's not an unfair hypothesis.]

Some people are like that. But surely it was just a misunderstanding; what happened after he turned you down?