In that case Lucien will just sit at the table awkwardly.

Haru goes and curls up next to Cricket on the couch and works on a blog post while Cricket makes biscuits on his leg.

Lucien can look at the very interesting wood grains and wish he could touch Haru's chest without it needing to be sexual. 

Eventually Haru's timer goes off. He calls Ren. They dish out chicken and potatoes and bagged salad with ranch.

Lucien is not going to be good at thinking of conversational topics but maybe someone else can do that.

Ren tells them all about the art projects her students made when she detects awkward silence.

Yes Lucien can engage with this topic as if he is a normal person having a normal day week life.

"Do you want like a ride to your place or anything?"

"Yes, I'd appreciate that."

Then Haru can go start up his truck and drive Lucien home.

Oh good Lucien was worried he was going to offer to fly Lucien and then where would they be.

Yeah, no, Haru's not racking up any backlash right now. He might fly to June's place later, he's behind on guiding her because he spent all week with the hot several-paces-away-compatible boy who he does not get to kiss for some reason. He is not flying to Lucien's.

Here it is. "G'night."

"Good night."

Lucien is, as it turns out, too emotionally wrung out to manage to sabotage his own sleep nearly as thoroughly as normal and is out within minutes, sexuality crisis be damned.

Haru takes the truck home, walks to June's so he can notebook there even though this is not as good for June but if she doesn't like it she is perfectly free to complain, now, isn't she, and then walks home.

The next day Lucien goes to - plans on - wants - okay actually he apparently still needs to think about Haru for a bit. And figure out what his brain is doing... which isn't proving doable.

Normally he would talk to his parents about a thing this confusing, probably even if it were a relationship thing, eventually anyways. If he were to ask them what, how to be homosexual? Well, his dad would ask him to be more specific and his mom would give him an amused look that would make him feel like he was taking himself way too seriously. And if he explained the situation to them...

It's really unfair for his mental models of his parents to be so much smarter than him.

He calls Haru.

"Hello?"

"Hi uh. I am really fond of you and the main reason I don't want to kiss you without courting or something isn't me being from the past it's that I think I will somehow become even more fond of you if I did that and it would be even worse than if you didn't reciprocate but if you do reciprocate than we could date or something and I would be very happy and could kiss you." Lucien says without taking a breath.

"If you wanted. That is."

Wow Lucien is really bad at this.

"- oh.

"That sounds really nice. Do you want to get dinner? I have a dungeon today and I'm running it with June so I need to sit with her after, but I can do dinner."

"...Lucien?"

"Yes I would like that very much."

"Oh good. Do you have a restaurant in mind, or a general cuisine, or anything?"

"I. Um. No. Dinner cuisine?"

"Okay, how about, like, Italian, there's a bistro six blocks from your place that I've liked in the past."

"Yes that sounds good." Lucien's skin is so warm why is it doing that.