"Did you think it wasn't all that mutual?" Rinoa asked, reaching up unconsciously to play with the rings on her necklace. "There was this guy, and we had a lot of fun together. I don't know if it was love. I think ... I tried not to fall as hard as I could have, because ... I didn't know how he felt. I knew what he said he felt, but ..."

But, well. They were having a summer fling, and on some level, they both knew it. Saying things like that were less about meaning it and more about saying them, in that situation.