He liked that she held onto his arm. Touchy girls were the best, as long as they weren't clingy. Clingy was bad.
"Oh, well, you see. You take this cue stick here and you use it to hit the white ball which then hits the coloured balls. If you get all your coloured balls in before I do, you win." While he was keeping it simple, he wasn't talking to her like a baby. She didn't strike him as that blonde, though he had definitely dated his fair share of those blondes in his time.
"Want to practice holding a stick?" He grinned. Yes, he was making a double entendre.