Agreeing to go into service is easy. No harder than signing up for the Marines. He's spent so long serving his country, it's a comfort to know he'll be acting in service again.
"Yes, ma'am."
She is, objectively, attractive. Marlo can't feel anything but dread.
"Yes, ma'am."
Whenever he's kissed girls before, there was leadup. Kissing Rachel with none at all feels even more strange and vaguely-unpleasant than kissing usually feels.
She probably wants a reaction — he hisses and moves his head pliantly where she seems to want it and keeps kissing her.
He's still not really sure what one is supposed to do with breasts but how about he holds it? that works. He puts his other hand on Rachel's side and kisses her deeper.
He can do that. It's just following instructions, it's not that hard.
He feels like he's slightly to the left of himself.
Okay. Okay. He, he can do that.
He arranges his face so it's smiling and touches her the way she'd taught him and kisses her again, moves from her mouth to her jawline down her neck and back up. You, he kisses. Because, apparently, you are flawless.
It's good to know what she likes, he can repeat it. He moves his hand from her breast to the back of her shoulder, pulls her a little bit closer, Melissa liked when he did that, and he rubs the thumb of his other hand in small circles against her side.
Alright. He can do that. He keeps kissing her neck for a moment before he murmurs "Yes, ma'am" against her skin and moves down.
He focuses entirely on Rachel's responses to what he's doing; it doesn't take long to learn what kind of pressure she likes, and where she likes it.
Oh — for just a second there he can almost operate on instinct, for just a second there kissing – someone – almost feels natural —the feeling fades after barely half a second, of course, but it was there — he runs his hands over her and lets So this is why Chris loves you echo around in his head.
"Yes ma'am."
He isn't completely unfamiliar with this but he's much less familiar with it than he is with kissing. He sticks to kissing his way down her torso and putting his hands on her hips until he has more of an idea where she wants him to start.