And then Dawn thinks about how her nana isn’t sick or getting frail or anything crazy, but she is getting older, and Dawn won’t see her until next summer at the earliest, probably, and what if Dawn gave up her last chance to spend time with her nana because she was too busy getting stoned and hooking up with Julian and sneaking into clubs and more or less causing mayhem?

And maybe it’s the hiking and the fatigue or the trauma of the whole experience, or maybe it’s just general loneliness, but that whole line of thinking makes Dawn VERY SAD.

Which is probably the whole point of all this hiking in the first place.

Dawn thinks about Bryce, too.

She thinks about how her little brother just started high school this month and how he’s probably scared out of his mind and has nobody to talk to.

She thinks about how her whole family has known Bryce is gay pretty much from birth but how Bryce hasn’t officially, you know, come out or anything, and she hopes the kids in high school aren’t being assholes about that.

She thinks about how lonely and scared she was when she started high school and how it was only her dad who really helped her get over the loneliness and the fear and how Bryce doesn’t have their dad to turn to, and he doesn’t even have Dawn anymore, either.