"Probably not, but you're stuck with me anyway. So try not to be too much of an embarrassment, okay?" She doesn't mean it, of course. Teasing him for the crying and the self-depreciation is just easier than trying to figure out how to comfort him. It's familiar, and that's comforting enough, isn't it?

There was one part that caught her attention, though. Just an otherwise off-hand remark that shouldn't have bothered her. But she frowns a bit as he says it, and returns to it after her bout of teasing. "...Who told you about the Maximus thing?"