[ To Annabeth, it's not so loaded. She's quite objective about her emotions and able to look at them from the outside. She knows that they're irrational things and that she can't choose who she's in love with, but she recognises it for what it is. ]

Oh, I know I'm in love. I didn't even mean it to happen so that's how I know it's for real.

But why do you say you could only be in like with someone? That seems sad.