This chapter's epigraph comes from Hiro's soliloquy, in which he says that he has learned how to "kiss like an adult" . He tells his friend that he is tired of talking to people in front of them, and that he wants to "plop to flap wait" , which is a fancy way of saying "smile and nice . . to ruffle his hair." Hiro tells him that the girl he was talking to during the confab was there, too, and Hiro asks if she is the same girl he is talking to now. Hiro says that she is not, but that they are not alone, and he will not do anything that would cause them trouble. He says he will take a shower, and then he will go to sleep. He asks if the girl is asleep, and she says she is. Hiro tells her to go to bed, and when she wakes up, he tells her that he washed her in a while, and washes her in the shower. He then asks her to show him how much she has grown. She says that it is because she has a bug bite, and