He smiled reassuringly at her. "It's fine, no worries," he hastened to reassure her, flopping down with a boyish kind of grace and sliding over closer to her. "Trust me, I'm a whiny baby when it actually does hurt. Simple preventative measures, this," he told her, leaning in to kiss her lightly again in reassurance. "So would you maybe go out with me sometime this week?" he asked almost hesitantly. "I'll find somewhere we can go where I shouldn't be recognized." Mostly for her sake rather than his. He didn't want to inflict his media problems on her, at least not for awhile yet.