On Mystic Lake

Nick asks Annie if she is still in love with Blake. She does not think it would be possible to still be in love with him, but he is her family, and she does not think a person can ever really stop loving family members. She tells him that Blake used to make fun of her hobbies, and he considered writing to be a hobby of hers. She packed away the two books she wrote. She thinks that Nick and Izzy have returned a sense of her identity to her, but Nick refutes this and claims that she fought to get herself back.

Annie’s father asks her about her relationship with Nick. She tells him that she is not in love with Nick, but she is not sure if that is true. She says that right now she is living for herself. He tells Annie that she is very strong and has a steel core, and that she cannot understand weakness because she has never really understood hopelessness. Annie knows she has another life and a daughter who will soon be home from London. She tells Nick that she does not want to hurt him, and he tells her that he understands that their situation will not last forever.