Well....this was starting to get a little tense. Jack had been very happily eating his burger, and letting the group talk out whatever ideas they had as he started to turn his own mind toward dessert. He hadn't done anything fancy, considering all else that had been going on in the kitchen for the duration of the day, and he shifted a little in his chair to pull his phone out of his pocket to check the timer he had counting down for the brownies. It was getting to be that time.
He sighed and slid the phone back, looking up toward the table and leaning his head out so he could look down the expanse of it. Shit, he should have started drinking hours ago for this.
He liked that everyone was talking, discussing, planning, but what he didn't like was this new turn of topic that likely meant people were going to start prying. The word "damaged" made him wince, because he didn't think that anyone really was. Shit happened. Shit happened to everyone, but to call someone that, even refer to yourself as that, seemed so self-deprecating that it kind of annoyed him.
"Well," he sighed conversationally, loud enough to be heard. He leaned his elbow on the table to the side of his plate, and his chin on his upraised fist as he considered everyone seated along both sides. He was mostly looking for a way to lighten the mood, but really, he just wanted the topic to move away from how some people were more fucked up than others, and how fortunate those who weren't must be. "We could look at this from a purely aesthetic standpoint." He paused, glancing around pointedly before he continued, his eyes closing for emphasis in the middle of the sentence as a small smile crept over his face. "We're all so very pretty." He paused one more time before his eyes moved again, as if waiting for a chorus of groans or denials. "No, really. I mean, that's an obvious common denominator. Statistically speaking this is kind of unbelievable." As stupid as it sounded, it was also fairly damn true. "Seriously. Look around this fucking table. No one else finds that fucking weird?"