[ He's a little surprised by such a loaded question by someone he doesn't know at all but the way she sort of led up to it made it so he wasn't caught completely off guard.

Gumball smiles softly and thinks. Is he in love? The idea is beautiful and warm but fills him slightly with an unsure kind of feeling as well.

Of course he's not. ]

I definitely love my friends and I have love for the subjects in my kingdom. There are people I could be in like with but nothing more. [ sigh ]

Were you asking me or were you asking yourself?