Possible Clues:

• In a bashful manner
• I'm interrupting drunk half-heartedly and in trepidation
• In the manner of a milquetoast
• Miles, without thinking, follows lifting computer stuff, like a mouse
• Without purpose, goes after boy shyly
• As if Chicken and Rice perhaps should be put on in a lazy way
• In a weak-kneed manner
• In shy, nervous manner