"Listen, I've been doing a lot of thinking about you and me, about our relationship. Obviously, some... things have been revealed over the last few weeks. Those things, whether we intended to divulge them or not, are influencing our relationship, they're altering it. And I think both of us feel that."
Lucas may not have commented, but his silence was as good as a written acknowledgment.
"We may occasionally have needed some time apart, to step away and reassess, but I think it's mostly because we weren't truly ready for our relationship to change so fundamentally. And I think that I speak for both of us when I say it has. I feel like our relationship is slowly turning into something that is far more akin to friendship, and I, for one, am excited about it.
"I'm excited about the possibil
