"Yeah, I hear you. I dunno, I was just... hoping we'd be able to get along?" He blushes a little, looking away and covering it with a irrelevant grin. "This whole thing, school and all that, it's really important to me, and having a roommate that can't stand me would be pretty distracting, huh?"

He laughs, but there's a hint of honesty there: that he honestly expected that he might get someone that would hate him on sight.