[well as long as he's got no problem with it...doesn't really think it's strange to be indulging on command at all, really, not from a cute girl at any rate]

Not entirely sure she's wrong...

[he's not even that far away really, even with Clover sandwiched between them, she's bitty. leaning around her to catch Locke with a hand on his shoulder and kiss him--thoroughly, not like somebody has to make up for being thought only the second-best male kisser after a brief kiss. other hand wandering over Clover's bare back as he does]