"No, you're not," Leo protested. But the fervor he said it with faded almost instantly, remembering all the rejections he's dealt with over the years. "That's normal. Not fun, but... normal." Everyone went through that at some point, right? Isn't that what everyone says?

Enjolras was an idiot, as far as he was concerned. Dany was one of the best girls at this camp, and Leo didn't think that just because she was his half-sister. He saw how she was with everyone around camp, as well as her dragons. Good luck to Enj, trying to do better.

"At least you're still friends, though, right?" Awkward friends, maybe, but friends. He wasn't sure how that worked, exactly; most of the time the girls who turned him down did so by outright ignoring his existence. Being friends was rarely in the equation.