It's almost like she's read his damn mind, though Chuck suspects he would feel just as self-conscious if he hadn't already been thinking about it. Though he doesn't even know if Laura is his girlfriend, having never stopped to put a label on it, the fact is that he has little experience with this sort of thing. No one knows that better than Beth does, who'd put up with him when he thought no one else would. That should make it easier to talk to her about it than anyone else. Easier, though, isn't saying very much.

"I'm... sort of seeing someone, actually," he says, voice lilting up into a question, mouth curled in a slight frown. "Or, I don't know if that's what it is, but it's something, I guess. Pretty new, still."