Summer vacation is over, and the heat of the new school year is in the air. Roxane and Soumya are getting ready to go back to school, and Roxane is bummed that she hasn't been able to do anything special with her time off. She's hooked on the occult magazine, but she doesn't know what to do with it, because she's in a "stagnant mate" at school. She tells Roxane that she'd like to go to the shrine and talk to the goddess there, but there's no way she'll be able to trust the people there. She also tells her friend that she has a crush on the goddess, and that she wants to kiss her, too, but that she knows she can't trust the other students at school because they're all around thirty-somethings. The girls decide to go get ice cream before they head back to class, but Roxane thinks they'll have to wait until lunch to get it. She asks Roxane if they've had any plans for lunch after noon, and she says they haven't. She then asks if they have any plans after that, and he says no, not that he knows of. They decide to have some ice cream, and then Roxane asks if she can have some of her own. She says she can, too. They eat ice cream and then she asks if he's blushing. He says he was blushing when they ate ice cream back when they did it, and it was fine. She wants to know if he had any of his own heart, and if he has any of hers. She looks at him and wonders if he might have some kind of "dis tance" between them. She thinks he might be