"YEAH, well you're popular HERE." There's no malice or jealousy to that. She is popular here, because of course she is. "I've never been popular EVER."
He sighs a little, like this is some great surprise. "But maybe I would be with a leather jacket?"

His voice goes up impossibly high at the end of this because he's not sure at all. Like, it worked for some people. "Do they look like GIRLY ones...?"