In truth, Peter could have sank down into the water and just relaxed the rest of the night away with the warm press of Claire against him - at least until the water grew cold and things started to get uncomfortable. But right then in that moment he was more than happy to just soak it up, his fingertips tracing idle patterns against her knee just a little.
It was only her question that stilled the movement, just for a moment, caught by surprised as he was by the question before his fingers started up once again and he considered it. "I still love her." He said finally because it was true, he would always love MJ, "She was the first girl I ever loved." He admitted, "We lived beside one another when we were kids, grew up just one house over, sometimes it felt inevitable that we'd end up together, especially when things were good." He told her, recounting the truth of his past.
"Things got harder as we got older. Trying to find a balance between Spider-Man and husband Peter Parker wasn't something I was especially good at." Balance was something he'd always struggled with, and he could feel that it was still an issue here, "To answer your question though. I'm not still in love with her." He finished, "It's complicated, I think it probably always will be a little bit. But I'm in love right now, and it's not with her." Which was - well Peter thought maybe he'd feel some sort of sadness at the thought of that, but saying it out loud just then, he realized the truth of it, and how good it felt to know that he still had it in him to love, to do more than just be afraid of it and everything it meant.