[If she was hoping to make him jump, she almost doesn't get her reward, but his eyes flared open too at the little drop, and he was half a step away from shifting to try and catch her before she stops herself again. It prompts a little roll of the eyes, the good-natured kind that he knows she'll see through, she knows him well enough.]
It's not my rush, you're the one who—
[Wanted me to look at them now gets lost entirely because, oh. This is different. And new. Good different and good new. She's still surprising him, and although this feels strange, it still makes him smile into the kiss and reach up to slide his fingers through her hair, closing his eyes and tipping his head a bit just to bring them that much deeper.
She's probably going to keep surprising him. It's increasingly difficult to know what to expect, which is probably exactly what he should be expecting by now. But it looks like they're...not going to have much trouble getting back to where they'd been. It's more of a relief than he'd realized it would be.]
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It's not my rush, you're the one who—
[Wanted me to look at them now gets lost entirely because, oh. This is different. And new. Good different and good new. She's still surprising him, and although this feels strange, it still makes him smile into the kiss and reach up to slide his fingers through her hair, closing his eyes and tipping his head a bit just to bring them that much deeper.
She's probably going to keep surprising him. It's increasingly difficult to know what to expect, which is probably exactly what he should be expecting by now. But it looks like they're...not going to have much trouble getting back to where they'd been. It's more of a relief than he'd realized it would be.]