The next day, Pat asks if he can go out with him. He wants to know why he can't just stop thinking about the guy. She tells him that he picked up her can of soda and that he had something on his back. She says that she got it off and that she will never see the guy again. He says that many relationships are ruined by little things and that it's hard to recover once a relationship is ruined. He goes on to say that he has too much English homework and that's why he keeps coming back to the same place. He's reading the truth system, and he wants to borrow it so he can read it while he's studying. He doesn't want to study, he says, because it'll make him look bad. But he says that he'll read the book well.