[ He notes how the air seems to catch itself in her throat, and he pauses, wondering if he's said the wrong thing. He's just speaking aloud how he feels, and how he feels is that they are a couple... a new couple, perhaps, and still figuring everything out about each other, but his mind has already made itself up.

On some level, his mind has decided that Jesse completes him, and because of that, they're already a couple. In some ways, he doesn't yet know how to reconcile his history with Alice and this unexpected discovery of his feelings for Jesse, but it's a process and an undertaking he's willing to go on until he figures it out.

He loves her, and he wants to explore that love, so that's what he intends to do. ]

Do you want to be one? I mean, do you want to be one with me? It's not fair of me to ask, but could you be happy being with me?