"Yes, she kissed me, which means she might have some weird kind of attraction to me, but Ed... come on. That's not going to last. Anyway, she deserves better than a guy in a wheelchair." It was a rare day when Rory was openly pessimistic about anything, but the subject of his prospects (or lack thereof) in the area of love (and sex) was just one of those things that put him over the edge. It was easier - and less painful - to just assume that it was never going to happen than to cling to any sort of misguided hope that a relationship would actually work. He looked up at his brother seriously. "Can we not talk about this? Please? I know you disagree but I just..." he shook his head. "I need to think about it some more."
"You like Lexie?" Rory asked, genuinely interested but also grateful for opportunity to guide the conversation away from his own flagging love life and towards Ed's.