"Mmmm " Well.. Uh.. I'm sure she's fine... This is a school..."
Really he was just trying to get the words out of the way as quickly as he could. Her Kiss had been tender and sweet, and he needed more of that. He had missed her, he had thought her gone. He felt awful for almost writing her off, but his emotions had scared him a bit. He had worried he was falling to fast, but at that point it was really too late, wasn't it.
He turned more fully into her and kissed her deeply, more passionately than he had.