"Aphrodisia," he told her, the words spilling out. "I warned her not to - but she said my name anyway, and then she kissed me, and I kissed her back, and I thought it was just the love spell. We both kind of... avoided each other after that, until the dance -"

He hesitated, taking a deep breath.

"We danced, and then she... Natalie told me it wasn't just Aphrodite's spell that made her like me."

And then he insulted her, she ran away, he found her, he kissed her, and then Percy attacked them with soda and ice. Dany had to have caught that; they were still sort of close to the pavilion then, and a person on fire wasn't exactly the picture of subtlety.