Alfie's eyes went comically wide for a moment as he hissed "Now?" Before he'd thought about it. Then he blushed and cleared his throat, swallowing the lump that was suddenly lodged there. "Yeah. Yeah, I guess we could...."
And before with Evie it had been awful, because she'd kissed him first and maybe that was the problem. Julien had too - but he wasn't thinking about that. Except, maybe he could make this a little bit enough like that that it would feel the same, and so he slid a hand to the back of her neck and tried to get her to turn around toward him a little more. His grip was maybe too hard.