Summary:

“What if we just stop hiding? We don’t have to make a huge deal about it — no big press conference or interview or anything — we can just start being ourselves. Let the public figure it out for themselves.” Shane shrugs. “We don’t owe them an explanation for what we do off the ice. I don’t want to come out for other people; I want to come out for me, and I feel like a big announcement would make everyone want us to answer their questions all at once, and I don’t want that. Whatever the public knows about our relationship… it should be on our terms, not cause some interviewer asked us a question and we felt pressured to answer.”

“So… like a soft launch?” asks Yuna. “I could get behind that.”

Shane nods.

“Okay.” Ilya puts his hand on top of Shane’s. “Let’s soft launch.”

Or Shane and Ilya decide to soft launch their relationship.