To be fair, Mick just puts two and two together. He'd all but told Leonard that he was completely and irrevocably his. That his heart belonged to only him. What else could he be thinking about?

"It means something to me," he clarifies with a half roll of a shoulder, still unable to look up at him. "It don't gotta mean the same thing to you." Because maybe Leonard doesn't think about him that way. Maybe he only likes girls. A thousand different maybes. "It's okay if it doesn't."