He pauses, but carefully trains his eyes on the text in front of him. Which actually doesn't make it any better because Rhodey's text was about Pepper anyway of course it was. He feels like he's sneaking something talking about her while she's laying right there, and then she has to say something like that. He knows he started it, but goddamn that's... Unable to keep himself from it any longer, he turns fully towards her and lets out a startled bark of a laugh in her direction. Is it just him or are they both exceptionally awkward human beings??? Jesus.

"Rhodey's asking me about you," he admits, putting the screen under her nose so she can see and shifting closer with the motion. He's already typed and erased like fifty texts and now she can probably put two and two together, oops. You thought he was doing work or something didn't you.