Park
- They start driving. When they pull over for gas, Park gets out to get food and a map, and Eleanor is asleep when he gets back to the truck. He tries to tell himself she's exhausted, but instead he finds he's angry that she's sleeping through their last hours together.
- He looks at her and tries to remember how things had changed, "how she went from someone he'd never met to the only one who mattered" (52.13).
- Park wonders why this had to happen now. If they'd had one more year, things would have been different—he would have been older, better able to take care of her.
- Finally, he pulls off the road to sleep, and pulls Eleanor into his lap. He cries until he falls asleep.
Eleanor
- Eleanor wakes up in Park's arms, and she would've thought it was a dream, except "her dreams were always terrifying" (52.20).
- Eleanor kisses Park awake "like it was the end of the world" (52.27). These two, right?
Park
- Park thinks about what his life will be like without Eleanor. It's not good.
Eleanor
- Eleanor knows there's only one of Park: "He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line" (52.34).
Park
- Park used to imagine how his parents met.
- All of his friends' parents are divorced, but his parents genuinely love each other, and Park wonders about the chances of meeting someone like that.
- Park thinks that this next kiss with Eleanor needs to last him forever.
Eleanor
- Eleanor thinks about the first time Park held her hand: "It felt better than anything had ever hurt" (52.47).
Park
- Park thinks about holding Eleanor's hand, too: "The first time he touched her hand, he'd known" (52.49).
Eleanor
- Nothing with Park is shameful or dirty, Eleanor thinks. Park is the sun. (You know who else is the sun? Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet.)
Park
- Park tells Eleanor they have to stop what they're doing, that they shouldn't go any farther; it's implied they don't have a condom.
- Eleanor says it doesn't matter, but Park says he needs to believe it isn't their last chance.