The chapter opens with a description of a young man at the gym. He is a friend of the young man's, and the two of them have been practicing together. The young man is excited to meet the man, and he is glad to see that the man is not his ex-lover. The two are surprised to see each other, and they begin to talk about their pasts. They are both glad that the other is not their former lover, but they do not want to get into a fight with each other because they feel that they are "too close" to each other to be in danger of being in each other's way