Heiji crossed his arms, thinking really, really hard. It was difficult because literally all his intelligence was poured into the detective pitcher and there was basically like two drops left for anything else please measure out 4 ml in 5 moves

"Well..." It hadn't been like kissing Jake, which had been absolutely hideous thank you very much groce. "I guess it was more like kissing Snake? And you an' I are friends, so that means... that other kiss was also like kissing a friend? So maybe that thing that was botherin' me was really nothing after all!"

Now Heiji was all smiles -- although his cheeks were still a little red. "Ha! I was all worried about it 'cause I thought it'd be awful, and then it wasn't. But kissin' a friend shouldn't feel bad anyway, right? Nothing to it!"