[This story includes spoilers for Abbott Elementary season three.]

Abbott Elementary followers received’t have to attend very lengthy to study the place Quinta Brunson’s Janine and Tyler James Williams‘ Gregory stand after that cliffhanger ending within the season three finale.

The ultimate moments of the present’s earlier installment noticed Gregory and Janine lastly take their will-they-won’t-they relationship to the following stage with a passionate kiss.

Williams stopped by The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA’s annual Emmys Nominees Night time occasion on Friday. When requested what he might tease about their love story in season 4, the Emmy nominee for the hit ABC comedy remained principally mum on the small print however did share an attention-grabbing tidbit.

“You’re positively gonna get a solution about what’s occurring with them. What is that this now? That’s one factor I can promise. You’ll know within the first episode,” he informed THR of the premiere, which airs on ABC on Oct. 9. “That’s for positive. We determined let’s give this an precise, not essentially a punctuation mark as a result of it by no means actually is that, however not less than a live performance reply. You’ll get that for positive.”

Like most followers of the collection, Williams additionally discovered himself considering, “Lastly!” after he first learn Gregory and Janine’s kiss within the script for Abbott Elementary’s season three finale.

“In some unspecified time in the future, whenever you’re residing within the pores and skin of the character, you start to really feel the nervousness construct as properly. So, it was very nice to have the ability to go, ‘OK, we are able to simply pop the cork off this, and see what occurs,’” he mentioned, including that the instant subsequent step was determining how their second can be completely different from each different will-they-won’t-they in popular culture.

The actor’s Emmy nomination this 12 months marks his third in a row for his tackle Gregory in Brunson’s award-winning sitcom, and he admitted the popularity by no means will get previous.

“There’s a number of actually good TV on the market, so the truth that we’re nominated and regarded and celebrated, it’s all the time tremendous particular,” he mentioned. “And I believe everybody works so laborious yearly that we by no means see one another, so it’s a very good time to see your pals and other people you labored with earlier than.”

Abbott Elementary obtained eight different Emmy nominations. Along with Williams’ for finest supporting actor in a comedy, the present additionally garnered nods for finest comedy collection, actress in a comedy collection, for supporting actress in a comedy collection, directing for a comedy and writing for a comedy, amongst others.

The 2024 Emmys, hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy, air Sunday, Sept. 15, on ABC from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET.

Tiffany Taylor contributed to this report.