Maybe I love you had been a slightly more productive thing to say than it's fine, because her response was encouraging. It wasn't the words so much as the way she held his gaze. He believed her. Not that he had ever stopped believing that she loved him, but there was something different in knowing it from all their previous interactions and feeling it in the way she looked at him, and he thought — maybe whatever else was there, if she was hesitant about him or embarrassed at the prospect of having to defend him to her family, was something that they could handle.
He took a deep breath and let it out. "Okay," he said with a nod. "Let's just see the rest of the house, yeah? You want to see it all?"
He took a deep breath and let it out. "Okay," he said with a nod. "Let's just see the rest of the house, yeah? You want to see it all?"

MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER