Good counter for black to the scotch gambit?

^^

I feel the need to take so he doesn't have Nxc6 but if I take he has a natural advantage in development.

yeah play the caro-kann

Idk, honestly when I do I take and then fianchetto or something, it usually turns tactical pretty fast, I do not know if the below example is good according to the computer, but when playing it I try to get things to go in that basic direction: 

Oh, hi chessknight  

hi athena. how r u

This is the scotch gambit? 

Kinda busy with school and everything... We haven't talked in a while lol, imma message you 

Well, I was talking about this opening. I know it's the scotch but it might not be the scotch gambit idk

Then here I play this

and IDK what to do from here.

After taking he has a substantial lead in development but if I decline Nxc6 is a strong threat.

This should go in chess openings, not general chess discussion.

Sorry I forgot to change that :/

@chessknight222 I've actually never tried that! Mbe I should play that later idk

i play the scotch as white and i never play that line with Be3. i always take 

So you basically know nothing about the Scotch.

That's fine... an easy way to start learning some basics is wikipedia.

y tf is it called lolli variation

but ok

idk

but it's a real thing