The first comment gets a snort of laughter. "Don't you do that all the time already?"

Hang on, what?

He searches with one hand for what she's talking about, he inadvertently nicks the hickey with his nail. "Ow." (Enthusiastic is an understatement.)

Stephen has the decency to look a little embarrassed.

And then increasingly so. You can practically see the implications all coming to him in a rush.

"...Is it that obvious?"