In this chapter, we are introduced to a young woman named Taylor, who is in love with her neighbor, a young man named Emerson. She has fallen in love and is now engaged to be married to another man. She is pregnant, and she has a foot injury that she is still recovering from. She tells Emerson that she wants to marry him, but he refuses, saying that he is afraid of falling for her. When she asks him to carry her home, he tells her that he has fallen for her