[For the longest moment he remains silent, a frown plastered on his lips about... everything. Though slowly he lets out a breath he'd been holding, shrugging slowly.]

It's stupid. [Especially for someone his age and having been in Hell of all things, ugh.] I'm not... ashamed of any of that or of being interested in anyone but when it feels like everything is being aired out in public like that... [It's a lot.]