You have a serious enough relationship.
Well how. You are an ordinary couple of lovers, in a completely ordinary relationship. Both are still studying, except that you run back and forth for part-time jobs from time to time. Money is still needed. It sounds like a boring daily routine in which nothing interesting happens. Rather, it is. But this relationship with Lyney is healthy, comfortable and pleasant.
And so, you are together, in a romantic setting, sitting on the couch, watching some recently released horror movie. The situation in the film is heating up, it's getting scarier, you're already starting to worry a lot, but you don't cover your face and don't turn away. You have a glass of soda in one hand, and you're holding Lyney's hand tightly in the other. Carefully, without distraction, you watch this terrible moment, bring a straw to your mouth, start drinking soda, as you hear it...
"And you will love me, won't you, if I become a jerboa with a cherry?" "What is it?" - he asks.
Whether Lyney asked this out of fear, or who knows...