Adam gave a little smirk. He supposed she was right...one couldn't really start considering themselves a man until they were at least considered an adult in the states, which at least in the US was eighteen. So, Adam had a year to go before that happened. "You don't owe me," Adam said with a gentle smile. "People do stuff, or in this case take stuff for the people they care about all the time." He knew even though he was insisting that she didn't owe him, that Louisa was still going to feel like she did, and that was quite all right. Louisa's stubbornness towards sticking to what she believed was right and what she felt was something that always made Adam all the more attracted to her.

At Louisa's playful poke in the arm, Adam gave a mock grimace of pain which unfortunately caused a bit of real pain to stream through his face, but he hid that fact pretty well. "I've never really been one for going to the doctor if I can help it," Adam said with a small shake of the head, eyeing the door to the hospital wing somewhat hesitantly. Of course Louisa was probably right that the nurse could make the whole thing go away quite quickly. Although that would also mean Adam having to answer up as to how he obtained such a wicked bruise which was not something he really wanted to be spreading around the entire school staff if he could help it. Almost as if Louisa had been thinking along the same lines, she offered to try and heal it.

"I'll admit I haven't really looked into too many healing charms and things like that," Adam said with a sheepish smirk. "Usually I'm more of a tough it out until it's absolutely necessary to get help kind of guy." Hence the scar on his palm..."But, if you have something in mind I'm all ears." Really...anything to at least ebb this pain would be great.