Summer wanted desperately to know what the rest of that cut-off sentence was going to be, while simultaneously feeling imcredibly relieved that it, whatever it was, hadn't been finished, and she had a tentative smile of her own.

"You're one of my best friends, too, Stark," she told him, "and you're right. That is the most important thing. And I don't want any of this," no fork wave needed, this time, "to mess that up, you know? Which is why it's important to talk about it, to know...where we're at."