Cocoa was agreed upon and so Honeyduke's was the next logical choice. Jess had never had better cocoa than that of the confectioner's. The quality of the chocolate certainly had to make a difference. With the first sip he felt himself warm up a little from the inside.

"More of a challenge than I anticipated." Jess was not normally an overly affectionate person, mostly with his nieces and nephews, but he could definitely still feel the urge to continually reach out to her in some way or another. He caught himself most of the time, but it was almost a herculean task.

The sweets display wasn't far off from where they got the cocoa and thankfully nobody else was within a few feet, gently he reached out to the small of her back. It could easily be construed as him gently guiding her toward their destination. Fortunately there's always later." He leaned in before stepping away again.