This chapter opens with a soliloquy in which the protagonist laments the fact that his moles have turned him into a "worthless 30 - year old office lady" . He asks the protagonist to give him "plenty" of reasons to like him, and the protagonist replies that he needs "more reasons" to like the protagonist. The protagonist asks if he can kiss the protagonist, but the protagonist responds that he cannot wait any longer, but that if the protagonist does not like it, he will "stop" the kiss. He tells the protagonist that he has been running away from the scene until now, but now that he sees the protagonist's reaction to the kiss, he decides that he must stop. He says that he wonders if there are any more moles in the scene, and that the protagonist must have another one, because his reaction is "cute" and "exasperated." The protagonist says that this is the second time he has found another mole in the same spot, and he says that the first time he had found one, he "sucked" it and "tottered" it, and it was "dirty" and