[At this rate the bot is long gone, confetti spilled and and bored, but how would they know any better? Things with Sasha never progressed too far physically, so aside from a rather energetic kiss with Caroline a little while ago that's also best left unthought about for the moment, it has been awhile for him since he's done something like this and it shows—not in rustiness, but in longing. Of course that isn't all about the physicality of the act. It's the act with Elena.
Elena whose eyes say more than her lips. Elena who seems to understand him when he's sure there's nothing about his life that makes any sense. Elena who is kissing him back in equal measure. Oxygen is going to be a thing soon. It already is—was—but the kiss was more important because once they stop...