Summer took a moment to think about how to answer that question, even though she'd been mentally workshopping how to answer that question ever since what happened actually did happen.
"An anniversary," she finally decided. "Or I guess you could say an anniversary almost happened, and that made me realize we'd been doing this thing for almost a year...a year, Rey!...and once you hit a year, that's, like, serious, and at this point in my life, that is the last thing I wanted. So I had to, you know..." And here she braced herself, because this was the crux of where she worried things might get divisive. Like, it was one thing with someone like Jack who disliked Stark pretty much right out the gate, but Rey was Stark's friend, too. "...cut it off."
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"An anniversary," she finally decided. "Or I guess you could say an anniversary almost happened, and that made me realize we'd been doing this thing for almost a year...a year, Rey!...and once you hit a year, that's, like, serious, and at this point in my life, that is the last thing I wanted. So I had to, you know..." And here she braced herself, because this was the crux of where she worried things might get divisive. Like, it was one thing with someone like Jack who disliked Stark pretty much right out the gate, but Rey was Stark's friend, too. "...cut it off."