GOTCHA. I guess I was just reading the other party as being a properly socialized young woman who is too obedient to her gender role to consider doing something as improper as KISSING SOMEONE FOR FUN, not because the other party wasn't interested in kissing! I like your read of it better. :D

and oh yesssssss I AM SO PLEASED there is Bahorel/Courfeyrac fic in the world and I WILL GET TO READ IT. An excellent pairing to start reading Amis fic with, I would say. (my first Amis fic was actually this, I think, which, written as it is in direct reaction to the fandom's tendencies, is perhaps the backwards place to start, but I didn't mind :P)