"I do need to make sure you know!" She keeps her voice down, painfully aware of how public this is. "You don't kiss friends on the lips, Kyle!" Maybe he did, maybe that was perfectly normal in whatever middle-of-nowhere American town he was from. But it was definitely over the line for her. If he'd kissed any other part of her face, it might have been a little intimate but she could still rationalize it as not necessarily romantic. As it was, though, he was making it very difficult for her to keep everything between them platonic.