"I'm sorry," Summer said, with a wince, and that was probably also going to happen often, along with the wincing, the apologizing, and, god , it sucked hurting him like this, but what was the other option? To just pretend everything was fine and suck up the fact that the idea of sticking this through made her kind of want to just scream? Stark wouldn't really want that, would he? If he did, then this was a million times even more the right choice.

"It's just....it's just too much, Stark. I didn't want anything too serious, but once you hit that year mark, that's it. You're locked in. It's serious from then on in."