She's wearing tennis shoes, no socks, and they are easily slipped off. This she does first, every movement careful and self-aware and this is different. Not lightheaded and overly confident from dogfighting, not with that heady love of life where you'd pin someone, anyone, to a wall and kiss them til they gasped.

This is deliberate. She asked, he agreed and no, you don't need the words.

Not when you lean in and up (their chairs are so close together, so close) and kiss him.