[Well... you're still seeing his sister, and now you're here, and there's no way that even her massive 'fix everything for everyone' skills/compulsion can do... anything about that. So why dredge it up?

But still, since he said she could ask, she's not going to turn that down. So she pauses in front of the grocery store to look at Ben directly and offer him a wry, sympathetic smile.] I guess if I was going to ask you anything, I'd ask if you were okay. But considering we're here... [a shrug] I don't really know how you can answer that.

[Because that was the important thing. She'd dig more into those parts of his pasts on longer acquaintance, maybe. Those parts of her own heart are way too raw right now to talk about, so even though he says it's fine... she's gonna wait.]