It's raining, and the narrator is worried about what's going to happen next. He's worried because he's lied about where he'd been before, and he doesn't know if he'll be able to get away with it. He asks if she's mad at him, and she says she is. He tells her that he just came back from seeing her, and that she brought an umbrella for him. The narrator is confused, because he didn't tell her where he was going, and now that he is, he can't figure out what he was supposed to do with his life. He tries to explain that the umbrella was the cause of his leg injury, but she won't believe him. She tells him that she came to pick him up because it was raining and she was worried about him. He says that he told her he was already gone, but that she seemed worried. He also says that it's weird that she would come to get him in the rain, since he was wearing an umbrella, and it was the umbrella that caused him to lose his balance and fall. He blames the umbrella for causing him to fall in the first place, and says he had a crutch and an umbrella in one hand, so he couldn't get his balance on the other. He wonders why he would have left her alone, since it was so long since he got his cast on his leg and he still fell down. He goes on to say that he went to see if she was there, and when she said she wasn't, he went home and thought they were just missing each other. When he went back to his room to find out what happened, he found the novel he was reading, which was about a student falling in love with his teacher. After reading the novel, he decided that he was in