"Mm, I think we're fine how we are for right now." He snuggles a bit closer to Dave and squeezes him with one arm to prove the point.

As happy as Maxxie is in his spot right now, the more he wakes up, the more he remembers that it isn't just as simple as this. There's expectations and consequences: not necessarily bad ones but he doesn't want to repeat old mistakes.

"So, um.." he begins, ineloquently. "What now?"