"Yep, kind of hard to miss the tall person in a crown," he laughs with her.

Tristan's face burns at Kennedy's words, all the way to the tips of his currently elongated ears. It's not like he's thought of kissing Riley before except actually he totally has, and he's dwelt on how utterly cute she is, and now Kennedy had to go and blurt out his exact thoughts and he doesn't know how to deal with this, oh God.

"Well, I er, um." He lets some of his blonde hair fall in front of his face to hide his blush. He sort of takes refuge in it. "I mean, I'd like to, butmaybewecouldstartwithadatefirst?"