"It's totally what you meant, and I wouldn't do that to you," he replies stubbornly, still a little wounded. But that quickly turns to some kind of awkwardness, which he can hopefully mask with a large drink of water.

"I don't know," he says after a moment. "I might. I definitely can't get you out of my head, mermaid, and I also definitely like being around you..." There's a slight huff. "I'm a pretty crap Aphrodite kid if I don't even know what love feels like, huh?"