His breathing gets a little unsteady. 

"Anything you want."

Haha this is a bad idea! Bad idea!

But he's pretty and good and he thinks she is the only person besides Abraham Lincoln or whoever who doesn't suck, and she's not going to do anything really stupid, okay brain, she's just going to kiss him - a lot - 

That's not stupid that's a great plan.

Oh good. Then she will keep kissing him. Possibly rest her hands on his hips while she does it. Which is stupid but it's not really stupid, okay brain, there are not going to be any clothes coming off in the immediate future, she's not that dumb.

" - 's this a very bad time for telepathy - "

"Don't think so-"

Oh hey she was not really expecting that. She'll do telepathy then. She likes doing telepathy when they're kissing. Like it's a whole different piece of him to look at and touch, and as nice as the pieces she can see are his thoughts are even better than that. And she likes knowing he's getting to see exactly what she's feeling, not just guessing based on what she's doing, because she knows she's pretty bad, sometimes, at communicating stuff, and this way she knows he can see that she loves him and thinks he's astonishingly pretty and really really likes kissing him and feels so, so lucky that she gets to have this - 

That's all very words and he's mostly not words and just happy and everything's good.

Yeah she's mostly very words all the time. Happy words, though. Also remembering that she wanted to remind him that he should sleep in her bed from now on but that she should not bring this up probably until they have not been kissing for a while because that could lead to Bad Decisions. Inconveniently her room here also has a Zana. Or maybe that's convenient, maybe Zana should just keep unknowingly chaperoning them until they're like established adults with enough money for a house that has more than two bedrooms - established adults with houses that contain lots of bedrooms are probably not being irresponsible if they have sex - 

(Only about half her brain is focused on future bed logistics. The other half is busy focusing on kissing him and being tempted to kiss his neck or something even though this is a terrible idea and she should not do it.)

- a terrible idea why, exactly, she thinks so many things are terrible ideas that sound like fine ideas on the whole - great ideas even -

Because there are like - things that moderately responsible teenagers do sometimes with people they like, and kissing is one of those, probably, but kissing parts of people besides their face feels like it's getting towards things that you're not really supposed to do when you're a teenager, you're supposed to, like, wait and be an established adult in some kind of established relationship probably - not everybody thinks that but it's like - it doesn't feel right, skipping ahead without being in a place where she knows for sure she's gong to get to keep him forever - also it feels possibly mean to do things that might make him want sex more, if she's not going to have it with him, and she doesn't want to be mean -

Humans are so - not that he really knows which things are human and which things are Karen - part of him feels that one's neck is kind of part of one's head and therefore this rule shouldn't apply there but the rest of him suspects that part is being dumb -

Possibly she is just weirdly neurotic about everything? Lots of people do in fact have sex while they're teenagers. Although they should not do that because she will end up pregnant. But you cannot get pregnant from kissing probably. Possibly she should assume all of her brain's objections are bad and ignore them, but, like, that seems possibly bad, too, what if they had good reasons and she just wasn't sure what they were - really she's not even sure any of her wants to have sex yet, though, mostly the thing she keeps accidentally fantasizing about is pulling his shirt off and running her hands over him, makes the part that loves feeling like he belongs to her get really excited - aaah she shouldn't be thinking about this if she's not going to do it, that's mean -

Weird definition of mean. Weirdest definition of mean, really. He's too distracted to make any sense of it and suspects it wouldn't make sense anyway and doesn't really care very much. He leans in to her. 

Eeee. If she abuses her flight powers she can press him up against the wall and levitate a couple inches off the ground and still be kissing him - there are not rules about flight because people mostly can't - 

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh this is the best thing that has happened, ever. Ever ever.

Eeee! How is he so adorable! He should get lots more kisses for being adorable. 

!!!!

How is he so good! She is so lucky the person whose life she happened to save is so good and so adorable and so excited about her.

- okay maybe she will kiss his neck after all if he's going to be this excited about this. Maybe getting him more excited is mean. He will just have to tell her if he wants her to stop being mean. Until then he is getting kisses.

She has the most confusing definition of being mean that he has ever heard in his entire life.

Well if he's not going to object then he's just going to keep getting kisses pressed to his jaw and the side of his neck, isn't he. He is way too pretty and good and excited for her to want to stop doing this on her own.

He is turned on and delighted and in love and too distracted to even guess at what on earth she meant about mean.

Oh gosh in love. That's very nice. That's very very nice. She - does not know how in love she is but she cares about him very very much and thinks he is lovely and wonderful and hers, and she wants him to feel safe and happy and loved - yeah okay maybe she still feels like she loves him -

The problem with this situation she has created is that now he's really happy, and she keeps making him happier, but she can't actually escalate that much further right now without her brain objecting, and she is not entirely sure how she's going to resolve the situation without leaving him disappointed that there isn't anything more, and she would really like for this to just be all good for him and not any disappointing at all.

Still pretty distracted but that seems like a weird amount of thinking about him or something.

Well he's hard not to think about! She really really really likes him, and what if she accidentally momentarily appears to be good at this and then actually is bad at behaving in a reasonable manner and he ends up being disappointed. People talk a lot about how boys will be disappointed and hurt if you get them really excited and make them feel like maybe there will be sex things and then there are not any sex things. That would be terrible. 

She... can't actually think of a solution to this right now so maybe she will just keep kissing him until she does.

He takes a step back. (The debt thinks it was expensive for him to do that, even though these kisses were for him.)

" - Karen -"