He nudges her playfully. "I have never felt as that before." Pavel shrugged. "It was new and I did not like it." But it had given his the courage (also with the rum) to take the leap and kiss him. In retrospect, he knew that it had been a bad idea, that he should have talked with the other boy instead, but he'd been so torn with how he was raised that nothing was clear at the time.
With her admission Pavel blushed slightly, "You did?" He asked, it was rhetorical. It was more a concern if she was saying it because it was truth or because she was just trying to sleeve his guilt.