Alpine Lake Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?

Penn's excitement fell flat in the instant she said Wait. He knew it was wrong (which was very uncharacteristic of him), but he really didn't want her to go say good bye to anyone. They were going to talk her out of this because they were all a bunch of selfish, overprotective assholes. Which wasn't fair--they weren't assholes, he knew. But they would be if they got in the way of this. It was obvious that Fenn wanted this, which would make it a real dick move if they talked her out of it.

But, what was he going to do? Stop her from saying good bye to her parents? No. He knew what it was like to not have that.

Penn gave a soft laugh and nodded. "Yeah, you're right, we can hold off for a bit," he said, "But don't take too long. And you gotta promise you won't let them talk you out of this. And you kick their asses if they tried to physically restrain you." He thought about telling her to hurry it up too--that he wasn't going to wait around forever. He held it back, though. He was perfectly okay with lying, but he had surprised himself into silence by not knowing whether or not that would've been a lie.