The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that his stepmom has refused to leave the house. The narrator tries to convince her to leave, but she refuses, saying that she is too wet to do so. He tells her that he will go to sleep, and she leaves the room. He feels bad for having made such a bad mistake, but he is determined to make up for it by going to the beach the next day with his friends. He says that seeing the sea helped him shake off his "complicated feelings" , and he remembers the last time he laughed and talked with people like that . He wonders what happened to his father, and wonders why he hasn't heard from him yet. He realizes that he has forgotten all about his father because of his stepmother. He asks her why she is so hard on him, and her response is that he is a "hair moonlight host moonlight" . She asks him to come out, and when he refuses, she tells him to "swish what ?