Ronan is absolutely not doing this for any reason except to make Noah stop whining at him.

Because really, Ronan is not doing this to avoid confronting his feelings about a certain mechanic, and how lately those feelings have turned from something like seething jealousy of him to seething jealousy of everyone around him, and how he wakes up with a hot and heavy pain in his stomach (and occasionally other places) when he thinks about this.

But lately Noah, being Noah, has been whining about I'm dead, I'm dead, because my best friend killed me and so Ronan slammed down his hands and snarled, "What the hell can I do to make you stop griping, Jesus Christ?"

Noah seemed to consider this. "I never got to kiss a boy."

"Go kiss Gansey," Ronan snarled automatically, because what the hell.

"Gansey doesn't want to kiss boys," Noah argued, and Ronan glared, and Noah said, "It's so sad I died in the-"

Ronan cut it off with a kiss. A fierce kiss, a fight kiss, a shut up kiss. Ronan had never kissed anyone on the mouth before, and Noah was cold and dead, so Ronan decided it didn't count as a first kiss. More like a warm up for the main event. Ronan wondered if Adam would kiss this way.

Noah stared, wide-eyed. "I didn't think you would actually do it," he said. "You could have not thought about A-"

"Now shut up," Ronan interrupted, "or the next kiss you get is from my first in your face."

There was silence. And then Noah said, "You know I kissed Blue, too," and Ronan grabbed him, and threw him out the window.