That was a strange thing too, those words. He didn't know if anyone had ever said them to him before. He liked to hope his parents had at one point and maybe he'd even had a friend who'd told him so but those memories were lost to him so, from what he knew, Krem was the first.

It made him shiver and he blushed, almost shy at the words being directed towards him. He didn't know if he'd done anything to deserve them and a part of him wanted to argue, to tell Krem that he couldn't love him but Thomas shut that part of himself down.

Thomas was never good with words and that hadn't changed so when Krem uttered those words, Thomas leaned forward and captured his lips with a gentle kiss, fond and lingering. He was better with actions.