"Woah, uh, hold up," he said. "I never said I didn't want to." He absolutely totally never, ever, ever, ever said that. Because he totally did want to. There was just a lot of totally scary stuff involved in getting there but...
"Yeah, okay," he said. "We can."
He wasn't going to screw up everything because of lingering fear of Molly's parents. They weren't involved in this. He and Molly were old enough to make their own decisions.