It's an observation. This is the effect you have on everyone, Hinata. If you think I'm lying about your looks ask the others. It was so confusing to find all of you had fallen to despair. But at the time, I was fixated on the idea that talent and hopes were tied together.

Mm, my therapist seems to think that was a distortion that let me 'mostly' operate as well adjusted. [Mostly being relative. He could think all the sour thoughts he wants about it but months of therapy at least let him come to a few conclusions.]

You couldn't have known what I was thinking other than those thoughts I let you see. We're both private people. [He swallows as he rolls back onto his side facing Hinata and stops at the flustered look on the other's face. It matches his own uncomfortable flush. It makes him feel a lot more exposed than baring his heart already is.] I asked what side you were sleeping on so you didn't accidentally touch my mark in your sleep. It's awkward enough as it is.