"Well, you did enjoy hesitating and poking my portals with sticks. I wonder if you would have trusted them sooner if they were a different color..." yes, she was teasing and leaning aginst him. "I think I want cider after this. That was...a lot of shots." And she had to munch a bit too.

"And yeah, I bet he was hoping, and may have money riding on, one or the other of us deciding to kiss the other." He was a sneaky doctor like that!