Jenna may possibly have had her eyes closed to enjoy the kiss more so she does jerk with a bit of a surprised shock when the hand goes on her face and open her eyes confused for a moment but when she sees what's going on she closes her eyes again, letting herself get lost in the kiss once more. The kiss, the touch, feeling so very nice on her cheek, all of him feeling so very nice, he's so very very good at this and it's so wonderful and she could bask like this forever though it's possible she should take a breath soon. In another 15 seconds or so. Or, no, maybe she can breathe through her nose, that makes sense. Jenna opens her eyes for a moment, breathes in slowly and carefully through her nose, and then, satisfied and happy to have figured this out, closes them again to better enjoy Sean and his hand and his mouth and his tongue and his everything. 

Her face is soft and nice to touch and she's so pretty and kissable and sweet and—

(and he knows what she looks like bleeding and crying and he wishes he didn't)

—he breaks the kiss, takes a deep breath, gives her a slightly apologetic peck on the cheek. "We should maybe go to dinner so we don't end up spending the next hour making out in my car," he says wryly.

Jenna grins and blushes shyly at him turning her head away a little embarrassed even though what he's saying he wants to avoid does sound like a really good plan but no he's probably right. Almost certainly right. Unfortunately. Even if she did more or less budget time for it they probably shouldn't get carried away. Much. Even if she wants to, wants to feel his hand on her face and the touch of his lips which are right there so close and... no. Jenna blushes a little deeper, at the thought, and takes a moment to collect herself before looking back up and speaking, "That's, probably a good idea yeah. You have the address, right? It shouldn't take us very long to get there." 

"Mmhmm."

He lets his hand linger on her face for another moment and then lets go and settles back into his seat and starts the car.

Logically speaking they're going to end up in his car at least one more time tonight, on the way from the restaurant to dance. He thinks he'll save bringing out the other Jennas for then, so he'll have a better idea of how much spare time he can fit extra conversations into. Is this just an excuse to have the Jenna who uncomplicatedly likes him all to himself for longer? He's pretty sure it isn't. There's practical reasons to want to get to the restaurant sooner and eat dinner sooner and then do all the making out and/or difficult conversations in the time between that and dance.

The lingering touch and look feels nice, and Jenna really wishes it would last longer even though she knows he's being right and it probably shouldn't.

It isn't a long drive to the restaurant but it is a drive and it seems silly to rest in silence even though Jenna's not entirely sure what to talk about so she defaults to the obvious topics, a little gleeful at the chance to talk to him at all really. Even if she'd rather be kissing. "So, how's college been going?" she asks. And Jenna can always tell him how her classes have been going if he doesn't have much to say about that and maybe segue into other topics from there, that sounds like a reasonable approach. 

"I have been doing an amazing amount of not sucking at it! I can't remember if I told you I got a friend to tutor me in Calculus, and I had a quiz on Monday and, like, didn't even come close to failing it, which is a fucking miracle by high school me's standards."

Jenna smiles to hear him talk about it like that. He did well and it made him happy!! There's no good reason why his joy should make her so happy too but it does, it really does. Jenna grins despite herself. "That's great!" she says back, happily. "I'm glad you're doing well! I never really was all that great at math either, I'm glad they're not making us take it for acting, which would probably be a bit silly. It does seem like it would come in more than handy for architecture, though! Admittedly I'm not entirely sure how but I assume there's probably something you need the math for when building arches, or something like that." Jenna blushes a little at her clumsy assumptions, realizing she probably sounds pretty foolish to Sean who likely knows better than her on that sort of thing. "But I bet you know more than I do on that subject, by now, I'm mostly just guessing." 

"Honestly at this point I'm still mostly just trusting the people who designed the curriculum that I'm gonna need it eventually."

Her happiness makes him happy too. They're gonna end up in a feedback loop and it's gonna be great.

Yup seeing him happy is just going to make Jenna happier and fill her with glee. Lots and lots of glee that she's going to do her best to keep controlled because she doesn't want to bounce up and down in her seat on her way to the restaurant because she wants to put on a good face and not seem like she's crazy or overly enthusiastic or anything like that. 

"Yeah, I get that," she says, still grinning, still happy, "I'm pretty much in the same boat, to be honest. They're teaching us a lot of background and things and while I suppose I can see how it's useful, for sure, it hasn't really come together into anything specific yet. Like I'm getting a bunch of puzzle pieces but can't see the picture yet, you know what I mean?" 

"Yeah, exactly!" He grins at her.

Oh look, it's the restaurant. Do they have somewhere to park? Yes they do.

Jenna grins back and waits for him to park and considers leaning over and kissing him once he manages to park but that would be a bad idea because they're supposed to be going into the restaurant to eat but he looks so cute when he grins and she really wants to kiss him again. But there will be plenty of time for that later once they were done eating and maybe also after they were done dancing and honestly even if it was pretty early Jenna was certainly looking forward to having the food and there would be plenty more conversation over dinner where she could see his cute smiling face anyways. 

Once parked, she grins at him again, not kissing him even though she wants to or even leaning over, reading to open her door to get out of the car when he opens his. Some part of her is still holding out a very small hope that they go and make out a whole bunch in the parking lot before dinner or possibly just skipping dinner but also they're in a public parking lot where people can see and maybe that's not the best thing to be doing hopefully Sean can park them in a darker and more secluded spot later to make out some before the dance. Or skip the dance entirely which while she certainly wants to be led in a dance by Sean again because that was certainly so very delightful feeling his hands on her and his strong frame and his sureness and everything about him and getting lose in the music with him, well even though it was wonderful and she wants to feel that again for sure if they do other things instead (as long as those other things don't go too far!) then that's okay too especially given just how incredible what other things they did last time were. And they don't have to show up for the lesson anyways, they can always show up later. That would be fine too. 

He gets out of the car, and when she's out of the car too he hugs her and kisses her forehead and then takes her hand to walk with her into the restaurant.

It is all Jenna can do to keep from bouncing up and down in glee when he kisses her forehead making her blush bright crimson and then he takes her hand and it feels so wonderful and strong and close and she bites back a squeal of joy and delight at the simple happy pleasure of holding his hand again which is silly because this is nothing like what they did before together at all this is so much more simple and chaste and straightforward and yet it's this that fills her with such simple joy and delight. She grins as wide as she can or at least as wide as she thought she could because the she grins even wider and turns her face away and bites her lip to keep from skipping as he leads her into the restaurant, thoughts bouncing around in circles about how there's a cute boy who she really likes and he's holding her hand and it's just so wonderful because he likes her. 

The restaurant is relatively empty at this hour, and the hostess has no trouble seating the two of them immediately. Jenna lets go of Sean's hand reluctantly, letting her fingers slide away from his before sitting down to read over the menu and figure out what she wants to eat! Some of it is food she's had before but some of it is not and she's never really had French food before and she should probably try something interesting and new! There are a lot of choices though and she looks through the menu trying to decide, looking up at Sean occasionally and grinning and blushing to see if he has anything he might want to say, about the menu or otherwise. 

Jenna being gleeful about holding his hand is the best thing in the entire world and he is so happy.

"Well," he says, glancing over the menu, "I sure don't speak French. Maybe I should pick something I can pronounce so I don't embarrass myself. Then again I bet they're used to it."

Jenna grins back at him, despite herself, he looks so very cute when he grins and he looks so hot sitting there across the table from her even though there's no candle like she wanted there to be for the romantic dinner but that's still fine because the food looks great. "They probably are used to it, yeah. I certainly can't speak French either for that matter but I'm probably going to order something that looks good but I haven't had before." She's currently debating between the, well, she can't pronounce it, but the orange duck, because she's never had duck before ever and it's supposed to be a really good French dish but also the Boeuf Bourguignon (which she's also almost certainly pronouncing wrong but oh well) looks like it would be delicious but also the Coq au Vin which she actually can pronounce is also a classic French dish that she could have and so she's rather torn. Also maybe they should have an appetizer too, sharing an appetizer is totally a romantic thing that people do in movies and tv shows, Jenna is sure, so maybe they should do it here, but she's not really sure what Sean likes. Maybe she should let him decide? "Well, if you ignore the french names for everything, what jumps out at you?" she tries. 

"It is all kind of a sea of fancy things I don't recognize. I'm really bad at food. I like trying new things, though! How about you, anything look tasty?"

Jenna blushes a little. Maybe a type of cuisine she'd never had before either wasn't the best first choice for a dinner out together. His confusion about different cuisines and food in general is a little strange but he did more or less indicate that food wasn't his thing before. A bit of an unexpected hiccup for sure but he's still asking her for help and she could help him and as long as it wasn't something he hated (which, given his limited food preferences, maybe it would be, it was hard to tell, but he could say something) everything would probably be fine. Besides, she realizes, as she comes to a sudden idea, this is a good way to make sure she gets to try more than one thing tonight, and it would be romantic. No need to split an appetizer this way either! And even if some of them looked good they could always come back here and order them later! Or, well, maybe some place not quite so unusual next time, but still, the option was there. 

"Well," she tells him, "I was looking at the, well, Orange Duck, since it's supposed to be a classic French thing at least from what I've heard and I've never had duck before, but also the Coq a Vin is a classic French dish and I've never had that either, and I haven't had the Boeuf Bourguignon before either and from reading the description it looks really tasty. There's also the Cordon Bleu which is also a classic French food I've never had before." She grins wryly at the admission. "We could each order one of the dishes and swap halfway through, if you want," she tells him, "since I'm not sure either. Or at least share! I bet the Boeuf Bourguignon is probably pretty good if you're not feeling that adventurous, I think? It looks pretty straightforward." And even though they would almost certainly not be feeding each other food off one another's forks like what happened in romance novels and movies and such, no matter how much Jenna might wish for it, this would still be reasonably romantic. She's pretty sure. And if he didn't like one of the two dishes, for whatever reason, she could certainly eat the other one. This should work out perfectly and Jenna feels rather clever for figuring this out under the circumstances and she does still feel a little bit bad about making a mistake like this but hopefully this should make up for it just fine. 

"Oh, good plan!" He grins at her. "Yeah, sure, I can get that and you can get something else and we can swap and then we'll both know which one we like better."

Jenna grins right back. Gosh she really is doing a lot of grinning like this isn't she. And so is he. Well that isn't really a problem is it. He really is so very cute sitting there grinning with that delightful smile and she's thinking about kissing him again and she really shouldn't be she can kiss him later after they eat food which she should still pick her meal probably well how about the orange duck that should be fine and honestly the idea of duck seems really interesting and if it's anything like chicken then she has nothing to worry about in terms of it tasting bad or not to her liking. "I'll have the duck, then, I think," she says. "And that should do us just fine!" She beams back at Sean, doing her very best not to think about kissing him some more and mostly failing. Kissing him is just so very wonderful, though!

"You're incredibly cute, you know that?"

Jenna sputters a little and turns pink and feels her ears burn and then goes from pink to red to burning crimson from realizing just how much she's blushing and goodness how does he keep doing this to her it hardly seems fair at all and he's still smiling at her like that and she turns away even more embarrassed now feeling a little self conscious about herself even though she can tell he's enjoying it and honestly it makes her happy that he's finding her cute even like this but she's not even sure what to say in response to that. In theory she should be able to come up with something witty to say in response about how he's cute or handsome or something but every idea that flashes into her head seems silly and just makes her turn redder for some reason so instead she just continues to look away and does her best to look coy and shy even as her face burns brightly. How is he this delightful and adorable for goodness sake? 

"Awww, I'm sorry. But the blushing makes you even cuter. Okay, I guess I'm not that sorry. I do kind of wanna give you a hug now though. Should probably save it for after dinner."

Jenna gives a little bit of a squeak, and tries to catch her breath and compose herself at least a little bit. He's so sweet and silly and keeps making her blush and she kindof wants that hug but he's probably right about after dinner and in any case she's suppose to be an actress isn't she she should be able to compose herself like this and at least get some amount of handle on her emotions that's how this works right? 

She takes a deep breath and looks him in the eye and then immediately turns away with her face flushing again and takes a couple more deep breaths and feel the color thankfully drain from her face to something closer to normal or at least normal around Sean since he keeps making her blush and drat that's just making her blush again no she can do this just take a couple more breaths and then slowly turns back to him and his cute smiling face and blushes only a little more and everything is fine and good and she can breathe ok again and she's not about to light her hair on fire from her burning face or ears or anything else. 

"I'm glad you enjoy it," she says, sticking her tongue out at him playfully which does immediately make her blush a little more but no this time she's going to have it under control. For sure. "I'll take that hug to go, yes," she says, controlling her blush this time. "And I'm not the only one here that's being cute, you know," she says, biting her lip to keep from blushing again. Gosh where is all of this coming from it's really good but she doesn't know if she can keep it up but hopefully it puts him on the back foot for once since it seems hardly fair that he could keep putting her off-balance like this.

"Awwwww, thanks." He bounces a little in his seat.

The waiter chooses this moment to arrive and ask for their orders. Sean makes a good-faith effort to pronounce the thing Jenna suggested he get.

Him bouncing in his seat is cute and adorable!! Jenna is super glad she's managing to delight him too, or something like that. She's a little too self-conscious to bounce in her own seat at the moment or more than a little but it's delightful and helps her relax a little. It didn't quite put him as off balance as she wanted it to, possibly not at all, but she certainly is feeling somewhat better at the moment. 

Jenna also likely mangles the name of her own order, but the waiter understands both of them perfectly anyways, and gives no real sign that they've said things wrong in any way. Once their order is done, he takes their menus, leaving the two of them looking at each other, Jenna still grinning and staring at Sean a little.