Chapter 1922 A Wild Secret Place:>Ep3

• After breakfast, during the drive up to the mountain they talked some more. Mark had been afraid they wouldn't have anything to talk about except memories and old stories of Jay and Amy. That was really what this day was about, after all, a kind of closure, helping Summer get what she needed from him, and helping them both to move on from the past. He didn't imagine he'd be seeing much of Summer after this, possibly even never again.
• Summer did ask a few questions about the old days. She did really want to hear those stories. Mark was the strongest link she had left to her parents, especially to her dad. She liked getting a feel for how Mark saw him, as his friend, and not just as the dad she had known. It was nice to see their friendship now from more of a grown up perspective.
• Once they were out of the car and on the trail, the past fell away a bit and they found themselves more in the present. Talking to Mark was easy. She could see why he was her parents' friend. Mark just seemed like a really great guy. He was good-natured, he was smart and funny, relaxed, he was even kind of cute, a full-grown man who still had a bit of boyish charm.