Kissing women is quite different than kissing men.

For one thing, there's not the roughness you get on the cheeks of even the most stubborn queans. Evie's skin is as soft as the silk she's wearing. For another, she's passive, pliant and limp, waiting for him to lead the kiss, at a point where Nigel would have put his tongue inside Jing Yi's mouth and his hands in Jing Yi's hair. But her mouth is warm and she sighs under him in pleasure. 

If he has to lead the way, he is quite willing to do that. And there's something about kissing someone who is pliant but happy. It's a different sensation, and a little bit unnerving, her staying still with pressure instead of moving into it-- but it has its appeals.

How does she feel about him trying to hold her close?

She moves with him.

She's very small, even fragile; it feels like he could easily break her. 

All the more reason to treat her gently, as something precious and delicate like her silk flowers.

An impulse appears in his brain, almost like a voice whispering in some internal ear: it would be very nice to take her to the bedroom. The bed is soft and he could lie down with her on the bed and feel her pressed up against him and maybe things could go a little farther. Of course they can't go all the way, Evie is a nice girl, lingerie decisions aside. But maybe she would let him touch her a bit, before she stopped him. She's very willing in his arms.

He could resist the impulse, if he wanted to. It's just there, as a thought. 

It would be very nice, is the thing. And he is almost certain she isn't unwilling-- her actions couldn't have been accident, etc.

He leads her to the bedroom, in a mutant half-remembered waltz from when he had to learn how to for a part. At no point does his lips leave her face.

Fortunately, Evie is a very talented follow, and one nice thing about being a talented follow with an inexperienced lead is that they can get the lead exactly where they want them.

For example, where Evie wants Jing Yi is on the bed with his arms wrapped around her and his body pressed into hers.

The thing about dance is that it's a collaboration, and series of "yes, and--" with some formal trappings laid over it.

He's quite happy to end up on the bed. And oh, look. Evie has a neck he can access more easily here.

A neck is certainly a thing that Evie has, and kissing it makes her make genuine sounds for the first time-- soft and whimpery like they've been pulled out from her lips against her will, like she doesn't want to admit to Jing Yi quite how much he's arousing her or how easily he could convince her to make a decision she doesn't quite want to make. 

Those are some good sounds. Very good sounds.

He should be well-behaved. Be a gentleman.

What he actually does is see if kissing collar bones makes her make similar sounds.

Mmm it very much does. And now she's also squirming a little bit.

With the way they're pressed together-- not to mention how barely-there her clothing is-- she's got to be able to feel that he's hard. But she's not recoiling away from it or stopping him; in fact, the way she squirms is providing a bit too much friction against his cock to be accidental. The chemise rises up, showing a few inches of her softly rounded stomach. 

She has to know. She has to like it, if she's acting like this.

(She's so beautiful, so wonderful, and she actually wants him--)

Two can play the not-quite-plausibly-deniable squirming game.

One of the very interesting features of this chemise is that it's loose enough that it's not at all difficult to tug it down and start kissing Evie's breasts while still maintaining plausible deniability that you intended to kiss her collarbone and she still has all of her clothes, such as they are, safely on her body.

It's a very convenient design feature! More clothes should feature it. (Like his. He is acutely aware he is wearing too many clothes, and that if-- hypothetically-- they needed to come off, it would be a whole goddamn production.)

Her breasts are warm and soft under his mouth. Somehow the skin is even smoother than the rest of her skin? It's impressive and a little distracting.

Whimper whimper whimper tremble.

The straps are falling down Evie's shoulders and the chemise is riding up and in general it is currently covering about three inches of her ribcage, not that Evie has remarked on this fact in any way.

And now there are two nipples right there, pink and ready to be kissed and touched.

Well, there's no reason not to see if she likes his mouth on them.

Her back arches off the bed. 

(This is not, needless to say, a reaction Jing Yi has ever gotten before when he put his mouth on someone's nipples, since every time before it was with a man.) 

That is a much more impressive reaction than he would have expected! (And definitely provokes no longing, no desire to know what it's like and feel it like that. Definitely.)

"You're wonderful, you know that?"

"Mm. Thank you. You're wonderful too." She looks so languid and happy lying there on the bed. 

eeeeeee she thinks he's wonderful! ...she could also just be being polite and echoing him, but she's doing that on a bed while only technically clothed, so.

He kisses her neck again. "I'll admit to not being an expert, here."

"Your first time necking with a girl?" she says, as if necking is absolutely the thing that they're doing.

Technically everyone still has their clothes on, which makes it necking. It's cast iron logic. "You could say that."

"It's a pity your neck is all covered with a collar."

He fumbles one handed to half unbutton his shirt. "I really don't know why we bother with these things."

"Shirts are an entirely unnecessary invention," she agrees, and helps him take it the rest of the way off, followed by his undershirt, which is surely what he intended all along.