Shay put great effort into not freaking out because he knew his best friend well enough to know that she needed to process information before she acted on it. And, he figured, this was probably a pretty big info dump. But then she did answer and his heart flipped into his throat.
"I'd...I'd say that that makes me really happy, but I'd just want to make sure you're really feeling what I'm feeling because I don't want to lose what we already have. Like...why now?"