All of Nico's prior kissing experience had occurred with people taller than her, but it wasn't too hard to adapt what she already knew to the present situation. The stiffer-than-human lips were a bit more difficult but she would figure it out if it meant that she got to kiss a boy who she liked and liked her back. Figuring out how to kiss Raph meant that she wasn't thinking about what had happened on the bridge or what would happen when they left this dusty little corner of Dauntless. She didn't have to think about it when she could think about this instead.

She plastered herself up against his front and cradled his head in her hands and kissed him and kissed him like she was trying to erase the world around them with her willpower alone.