COOL. SUPER COOL!!! That's a GOOD THING, because if Jeffy and Essie (or even Estella Devillington!!) BOTH want to kiss each other then there shouldn't be ANYTHING WEIRD about it if they DO kiss! Right? RIGHT??? GOD, if only there was just someone he could, like, check in with to update them on their progress and tell him what to do next. (Though he can probably figure out what at LEAST Micah's advice would be in this situation, and it has something to do with kissing her on the face.)
He looks up at Essie and tries to quell his confusion and... panic??? No, it can't be panic!! Jeffy Key doesn't panic!! He's an eternal optimist!! He just wants to make sure he does the EXACT RIGHT THING, because the thing is he doesn't JUST want to kiss Essie. He also wants to hold her hand and tell her that she's pretty and funny and SUPER BADASS and sit with her at lunch and try to figure out how they're supposed to use their planners together to fit in FUN and not have ANY of it be WEIRD. Because what if she wants to kiss him but not do anything ELSE?? Or what if they're both CONSTANTLY worried about doing or saying the wrong thing and they end up sitting in awkward silence every day?? What about Quidditch??
Okay, okay, maybe worry about the rest of that stuff later, maybe just take it one step at a time. That's what he does when a Quidditch game gets hectic, or when a seance goes horribly wrong, or he realizes two hours is so NOT enough time to get all his homework done: focus on one thing at a time, and block the rest out. What's the first thing on his list? What can he focus on???
“... Can I?” Jeffy asks, and he can definitely feel his heart beating somewhere near his throat and his stomach twisting and WOW he wasn't even close to this nervous before the Ilvermorny game last year or the finals match or during his final exams or—okay there might have been a second where they were being chased by a ghost and he was this nervous, but that was a PRETTY SPECIFIC INCIDENT. His hand twitches, makes a motion like he's going to maybe think about holding her hand or something, but he stops short. One thing at a time. “Kiss you? Even if it turns me into a vampire, that still sounds PRETTY awesome.”
Jeffy + Essie vs. A Closet, Take 3
He looks up at Essie and tries to quell his confusion and... panic??? No, it can't be panic!! Jeffy Key doesn't panic!! He's an eternal optimist!! He just wants to make sure he does the EXACT RIGHT THING, because the thing is he doesn't JUST want to kiss Essie. He also wants to hold her hand and tell her that she's pretty and funny and SUPER BADASS and sit with her at lunch and try to figure out how they're supposed to use their planners together to fit in FUN and not have ANY of it be WEIRD. Because what if she wants to kiss him but not do anything ELSE?? Or what if they're both CONSTANTLY worried about doing or saying the wrong thing and they end up sitting in awkward silence every day?? What about Quidditch??
Okay, okay, maybe worry about the rest of that stuff later, maybe just take it one step at a time. That's what he does when a Quidditch game gets hectic, or when a seance goes horribly wrong, or he realizes two hours is so NOT enough time to get all his homework done: focus on one thing at a time, and block the rest out. What's the first thing on his list? What can he focus on???
“... Can I?” Jeffy asks, and he can definitely feel his heart beating somewhere near his throat and his stomach twisting and WOW he wasn't even close to this nervous before the Ilvermorny game last year or the finals match or during his final exams or—okay there might have been a second where they were being chased by a ghost and he was this nervous, but that was a PRETTY SPECIFIC INCIDENT. His hand twitches, makes a motion like he's going to maybe think about holding her hand or something, but he stops short. One thing at a time. “Kiss you? Even if it turns me into a vampire, that still sounds PRETTY awesome.”