The Heated Rivalry season one finale, “The Cottage,” ended with a super sweet moment between Shane and Ilya.

The main couple of the series quite literally drove off into the sunset after Shane came out to his parents and they revealed they were a couple.

This scene plays out as the end credits roll, with stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams playfully acting out some improvised lines as they leave Shane’s parents’ house and head back home to his own cottage down the street.

There is no sound as Cailin Russo‘s “Bad Things” plays, but you can see the actors talking. So, what did they say?

“That was all improv. Jacob [Tierney] said, ‘This is what ends our show. So just be Shane and Ilya after this drive,’” Hudson told Harper’s Bazaar. “And it felt like there was an element of both Connor and Hudson mixed into Shane and Ilya, just, ‘Wow, we did it. We’re going to have done something.’ I think that was the closest our lines blurred between who we were in that moment and where they are in that moment. It was really beautiful, actually.”

He added, “I think we said a lot of things like, ‘I can’t believe we’ve done this.’ I remember a lot of ‘I love you’s and ‘Wow—I can’t believe we’ve done it. I can’t believe this happened.’”

Connor revealed that they filmed that scene twice, and the first time they did it, wasn’t quite as happy as you see in the final cut.

“We filmed that twice. I don’t know which take they ended up using, but the first take, because we sit there for three or four minutes — we do the full length of that song, which I f–king love — Hudson and I just kind of rode in silence and just cried during that whole scene,” he told Variety. “As actors, we were like, ‘We’re killing. We’re in it. This is real, we’re so in love.’ Then the music stops and Jacob comes around and is like, ‘Alrighty, let’s do one where you guys don’t look like you want to kill yourselves. Let’s start over.’ He was like, ‘Be cute. This is happy. This is fun.’ We interpreted it in a very dramatic way. But, yeah, we literally get to ride off into the sunset.”

Of the ending, which differs from the book, creator/writer/director Jacob Tierney noted he wanted the season to end on a happy note.

“I wanted to leave the viewer with what the book left me with emotionally, which was the kind of warm, fuzzy feeling of them getting to be happy together,” he told Variety. “I thought of doing something with just a bit of elegance, and there’s a simplicity to the two of them in a car, driving off into the sunset, and not over a cliff. That was all I ever wanted out of this story.”

“Part of the balancing act of the storytelling for me was always that you get this big moment with Scott and Kip in the last episode,” he continued. “It is this massive rom-com public declaration of love, and what I love about Shane and Ilya’s story is that you get another version of that kind of happiness, which is this small moment with the two of them just being allowed to be in love. That was the sweetest ending I could come up with for them, for now.”