[He nods, and maybe he is thinking back on high school. On his classmates. Was this a thing they did? He tried to not pay too much attention, just like he's trying not to think back on it so much now, but the situation calls for it and even though it's such a small, silly thing it firmly yanks his attention to the thing she had that he didn't.
Laid side by side, her teenage years were by far tougher than his. There's no competition, really, except in one area that up until a few days ago didn't matter one bit. ]
You know... [Softly. He's just talking here.] ...sometimes I wonder how much I really missed out on.