Ray chuckles, realizing how dramatic it all may sound. It truly is refreshing not changing the subject all the time and actually talking about it.

"Sure. They know what they're doing here." Ray's finding it hard to not make their hands more intimately entwined, but he knows he has to. For now. "It's up to me now. Can't be making excuses and acting self-destructive all my life, right? I'm 51."