The picture, in the beginning, is a reference to this old story about a little girl who is homeless and she only has a box of matches and when winter comes she lights them all and in the end, she burns to death
The thing is he doesn't seem to mind the teasing as much as i would like i would be driven crazy by that kind of stuff. the teasing isn't what really bothers me it is having someone reading your mind is kind of scary.
But I still read it for some odd reason