The obvious, graceful thing to do, something which would also downplay his reaction and the importance of what he'd said, would be to wave it off. Sit there and pretend nothing had happened and do absolutely nothing.

Cliffjumper, however, couldn't do that.

Not that he'd realised that Mirage might have figured out a thing or two, but Cliffjumper's nerves about the whole thing and Mirage's response was far too much. So instead he scowled.

"Yeah. Sure. You're welcome." Scowled and blushed and stormed off, not even looking where he was going before the door was closing behind him and staring at a berth.

Great.

But walking back out wasn't something Cliffjumper was about to do right now.