Lucas Hay (Oscar Curtis) makes a play to win back Dillon Ray (Nathaniel Dass) in Hollyoaks as, despite his best efforts, he just can’t stop loving his former flame.

Dillon, as viewers know, cheated on Lucas during the Channel 4 soap’s ‘missing’ year with his boyfriend’s sister Leah Barnes (Ela-May Demircan), who subsequently gave birth to his baby.

Lucas was in young offenders at the time, counting down the days until his release so that he could be reunited with his one true love, unaware of what Dillon had got up to in his absence.

The truth was revealed last year, with Lucas positively devastated by the betrayal as he made it quite clear that he and Dillon will never, ever be getting back together.

Dillon was heartbroken and he’s struggled to adjust to being a dad to baby James, feeling unready for such a thing.

The distance between he and Lucas thawed somewhat over the festive season and episodes this week saw the former flames put their differences side to support Frankie Osborne (Isabelle Smith) in the wake of JJ’s trial, sharing a hug in the process.

It appears as though this warm embrace reignites the spark for Lucas, who struggles to get Dillon out of his head next week.

Ste Hay (Kieron Richardson) sees through Lucas’ attempts to push Dillon away and, knowing full well that his approach isn’t working, he offers his son some advice, with Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard) sharing some pointers too.

Lucas ultimately decides to prepare a fancy meal for him and Dillon and, in doing so, he impresses Tony, who offers him a job at The Hutch.

How the meal pans out remains to be seen but subsequent scenes see Dillon attempting to take drugs, with Rex Gallagher (Jonny Labey) discouraging him from doing so.

Ste, meanwhile, turns his attention to Dillon, informing him that Lucas is trying to win him back. Armed with this new information, Dillon confronts Lucas once more and asks him to cook for him again.

Later, Dillon tells Lucas that he hopes they can move back past everything and officially start again.

Is this the moment fans have longed for? Is the popular couple, known as HayRay to fans, officially back on?

Hollyoaks streams Mondays to Wednesdays from 7am on Channel 4’s streaming platform, or catch episodes on TV at 7pm on E4.