[Phanan has a faint, awkward stiffness to him as he returns the kiss. Its not personal, its more that he doesn't want to let himself go. With how lonely he's been for so long it would be too easy to get way too into this and then he'd just have to talk and explain what a mess and he doesn't do that with anyone, not even Face and they're best friends. So there's all that running through his head along with how nice this feels and how much he's missed it and all he can feel is this horrible, overwhelming sense of sadness, this thought that the only time someone will touch him is when they're forced to by a shouting robot.
He manages a nearly convincing smile anyway when they finally pull apart to a shower of confetti. Like he said, not good at talking about his problems.]
((He already got pounced by it once, I feel like any more would just be cruel and unusual torture lol!))