How to get to the Lingerie store

I held my arms gingerly around Amaryllis, wanting to comfort without doing anything possessive. It was a difficult line to walk, and it was almost enough to distract me from how tightly she was pressing herself against me. I stroked her back for a bit before dropping my arms away from her. She loosened her grip on me, enough so that she can lean away and look up at my face, but not actually letting go of me. I didn't want to be awkward about this, because I didn't want to make her feel awkward, so I decided to keep up a high energy excitement. Actually high-energy might be a bit much, perhaps a mid-energy would be better.

"Where do you want to start?" I asked, and then winced, adding on, "You may be tired, so we do not have to start today. I have pajamas that you can use, and you can borrow my clothes, but I do not think that will be an effective long-term solution."

She leaned back, considering for a moment, still keeping her arms around my back, hanging off me like I was some sort of post. She came to a decision, suddenly lurching back into me, saying, "Let's start with lingerie!"

Oh boy.

I never really had any women in my life, at least not the sort whom I would buy lingerie for, so I didn't really know where the nearest lingerie store was. There may have been one at the mall, but I did most of my shopping there at the same three stores and never really paid attention to anything else.

I pulled out my phone, trying not to disturb the hug until she was ready for it, and sheepishly looked up "Women's Lingerie Stores near me". In retrospect, saying "Women's", was probably more than a little redundant, but I digress. I caught sight of Amaryllis grinning over my shoulder, but that was probably due to my awkward demeanour.

"Okay," I said, sliding my phone back into my pocket, "We can get their with the bus that leaves in 5 minutes, or we can wait for another one of the buses after that, they come every 15 minutes. I would want to leave before the bus at 9:30, since the buses stop running at 10:30, but if you are okay with walking, or if you think that we can be finished the shopping trip in less than 45 minutes, we can leave then."

"45 minutes?" she asked, "Aren't the buses an hour apart?",

"Yeah, but it takes exactly 7 minutes and 14 seconds to get from the bus stop to the mall, and the same time back, so that is an hour minus 14 minutes and 28 seconds, or 45 minutes and 32 seconds, but I shortened it to 45 minutes for convenience."

She snickered, "Exactly 7 minutes and 14 seconds?"

"I've timed it. I go to the mall fairly regularly, so I thought it best to be able to measure and optimize all aspects of my route there and back," I said.

Amaryllis sighed, "Fair enough I guess. Can we take the bus that's coming in 20 minutes?"

"Sure," I said, "What do you want to do in the mean time?"

"Cuddle."

"... Okay," I said, wrapping my arms around her, "Sounds good to me."