[ ...Oh. He didn't exactly mean to bring anything like that up. He was just trying to give her some awkward encouragement. Obviously this has gone horribly wrong. Doesn't help that Squall isn't the best person at handling his own emotions, much less someone else's. He'll just end up sighing and throwing his head back. ]

Then don't say you can't do anything. You just proved you did. It doesn't matter how ineffectual you may have been. You have to repeat something over a least a million times before you can ever hope to be confident.