"I'm not trying to surprise you. I could if I wanted to." Perhaps he would later. Edward was beginning to have a pretty decent idea of how Jonathan could be surprised. "You are a puzzle, so I'm figuring you out."

It was a rewarding thing to do. "People are all like puzzles, but most have fewer pieces than you. Ugliness is relative, by the way. Beauty is subjective. But, trust me, by and large there wasn't a single person seeing my hidden beauty before I hit my growth spurt."

It hadn't mattered much to him then. "It wasn't a big deal, I didn't care about how I looked." He looked at Jonathan from the side, a smirk on his face. "That was before I realised how much I'd love having sex."