Atton experienced that feeling he'd felt around Sparkle once or twice - that sudden need to chuck something at the kid's head because he was being both unbearably cotton candy-level infatuated and completely stupidly unhealthy at the same time.

(He always reeled it in, partly because it wasn't his business, partly because he wasn't exactly the one to talk.)

"Sounds like that list does keep getting bigger," he mused instead, neutrally.