"I think so." He smiled up at the other. "Emerson called my dad and chewed him out." he shrugged, lightly, tears welling up in his eyes again. "It means so much to me that he didn't just kick me to curb, but he actually wants me here, with him." Lucien's eyes fell to Nate's chest.
"And I am going to try harder to not be the old Lucien, granted I am not sure what the new Lucien will look like, but he has to be better than a messed up teenager."
Reaching out, he ran his hand over the other's clothed chest. "Thanks for not having sex with me last night. I don't know what shape I was in, but I didn't need that. In a way, with you, it would have felt like I was raping you. If you know what I mean?" He looked up into the other's eyes.