"And then I met Lucas." He gave me a lopsided smile. "You know, I started to tell you everything so many times after you met Gumdrop that I lost count. But every damn time, I came up against the exact same problem. You were letting your walls down, so I needed to confess everything. But..." I groaned. "But I thought you were trying to confess feelings and totally derailed everything, didn't I?" Zed wrinkled his nose. "A little bit. Because then I could see a future for us that rivaled even my most farfetched fantasies, and I had an even stronger desire to never fuck it up." "Until you did."
