It's been a while since we last saw each other, and now that we're back in the present, we get a brief glimpse of what it's like to be in love. We're told that the narrator's parents aren't in on the secret, but they're not too happy about it either. The narrator tells us that she's worried about how her parents will feel when they find out about her love life. She's also worried that they won't be able to tell her how much they love her, since they don't really know her. So she decides to go on a date with a guy she just met, but she doesn't know how she'll feel about it. She thinks that it'll be awkward for her parents to ask her about her, and that they'll have to feel awkward when they see how young she is and how old she is. She decides that it would be better if she went on the date with the guy she met, since it would make her feel better about her relationship with him, but then she realizes that she and the guy are already in love, so she decides not to go. She also thinks that the date will just make her sad, since she hasn't grown up at all since she met the guy. We learn that the guy is a friend of hers from her school days, and he's come to visit her at the "darkest hour" of the night. She tells him that her kid is