A message arrives from Noa's site, telling her that she's pregnant and asking her to come live with her. Noa says she'll take care of her when she gets back to work, but that she doesn't want to cause her any trouble. The message also tells her that her mother raised her on her own, and that her hair is as lustrous as her clothes. She asks her mom if she has someone to care for her, and her mom says she does, but she won't do anything to upset her mom. The narrator tells us that he used to be good at group life in middle school. He says that his mother used to make fun of how he wouldn't be able to resist the attention of the other kids, and he would always be the boss's guy. The captain of the school's soccer team used to give orders without doing anything himself, and the narrator says that the captain was easy to like because she was a good leader. He also says that when he got to college, he learned that he could earn his own living as a part-time worker.