Lucas stood still, speechless. Lucy's confession had caught him completely off guard, not because he couldn't understand how she felt, he wasn't an idiot. Lucas knew there was a reason for her to stare at him during class and also to go to all his games. However, he had never thought that she would actually act to express it. His thoughts began to revolve around the complexity of the situation.
He looked at Lucy, who was waiting anxiously for an answer, but his mind was far away. Although he had the body of a young man, he knew that mentally he was 30.
It was as if there was an invisible wall between him and that moment, something he didn't know how to cross and whether he should.