He didn't quite believe her and he didn't know how to say that without upsetting her. "I'm sure you'll do fine." Maybe it was the fire she'd included that was keeping her nerves on edge. She'd positioned herself just out of his reach and without the ability to lean forward, he couldn't reach out again like he wanted to.

Alright was not a satisfactory answer either. Maybe she had a different categorization of "alright", but for him it wasn't what he would have expected. She'd been so excited to do the whole birthday thing and now he wasn't so sure she was in the mindset she would have hoped for. "Enough about birthdays, tell me why you don't think that's important to discuss?" Birthdays came and went every year, an annual thing. Plus Jess hated being the center of attention.

"Not looking to pick a fight-" He said softly, wanting her to know that fighting was the last thing he wanted to do today. He may have been the one in the hospital, but it seemed she was the one who still had some healing to do. "Just seems like something's off." Maybe he was wrong, maybe he was reading into it too much, but Jess didn't do well with not knowing either.