Matthew decided it had to be a joke. He\'d said Rico was friendly, nice, kind-hearted... next thing he knew, he was being kissed. Basically, the servant man took it as a thank you, but a cheeky one, since that was Rico\'s style, as far as he could tell. He was fine with it, even though it was slightly odd (but, again, that was just like Rico, right?).
What he wasn\'t fine with was his own reaction. He\'d never been kissed on the lips like this before (he\'d had very few kisses at all on the lips, in fact, most were delivered to his cheeks and they were infrequent at best) and he was surprised at the reaction inside himself. His heart did a flip in his chest and then started racing away from itself at a dizzying speed. His mouth flooded with saliva and he blinked as if something was about to fly into his eyes. Adrenalin coursed through him, making him feel more excited than he knew what to do with and there was a shot of awareness that flew down through his belly and to... other places.
It was a crazy reaction, one that didn\'t have any right surfacing at that exact moment. His face flushed with a heat that felt so intense he could\'ve been leaning down to check the stove\'s fire and he shivered slightly. rico likely felt he tremble in his lips. To cover it up, he pressed his face forward slightly, to return the kiss and end it (in his opinion), for it was just a tease, a joke, a show of gratitude for him saying that Rico was a frienly guy - this was exactly how he proved he was and that should be Matthew\'s focus.
Never mind that his insane body had ideas all of its own that he couldn\'t bring himself to explore. Best to wait for the kiss to be over so he could go back to eating his dinner (his utensils were clenched hard within his grasp for some strange reason).