Alex swallowed thickly, every nerve in his body on hyper alert now. He could think of nothing outside of the sensations he was feeling, forgetting that they were in the common room or anything else outside of the bubble of just the two of them. His things on the chair he was standing next to... Wait, what chair?

And then his brain shut down completely. He stood there, dumbfounded with his arms hanging loosely at his sides. What should he do? Should he wrap his arms arms around her? Kiss her back? What? It took him a moment to kick start his brain again, but he finally raised his arms slowly and placed them on her hips and kissed her nervously.