Well, there was no way Shawn was going to leave her when she was clearly on the verge of tears, no matter how badly he wanted to beat up a teenager. He reached out and pulled her into an awkward hug.
"That's something you need to talk to him about," Shawn said. "If you guys were older, I'd say that was probably true. And really it depends on what you want, but he may have realized that he made a big mistake by asking." At least he hoped that Lucas realized how bad he'd screwed up.