"Family." He says with a single one-word-answer-all.

Kissing her forehead he expands his thought, "it's been a long long time and I didn't part on the best of terms.
Plus I've never brought a girl quite like you home before."
He adds with a playful laugh, catching her eyes in his.
"I don't know what they will think or do!" 

There was truth mixed in his words, a slither of his vulnerability. 
It felt good to share it.

"We'll have to be getting ready soon, hungry?"