"Are you sure you don't want me to be here with you when your family arrives?" Tom asked Lucy when she kept trying to convince him to leave before the arrival of her parents and Lucas.
"Yes. I'm very sure," Lucy assured him with a smile.
Lucas had called to say their mother would be the only one staying with her in her apartment since it would be too small to accommodate them all. So her father and Lucas had decided to find a hotel closest to her apartment where they could lodge before coming down to meet her.
Tom had tried to convince her that they could use his apartment which was next to hers, instead of lodging in a hotel, but Lucy had politely turned down the offer.
"C'mon, Tom! They are my family, and I don't need protection from them. It's not like they're going to eat me or something," Lucy said in a lighter tone when Tom just kept staring at her as if he was searching for something on her face.
