When the chapter opens, Siddhartha is in the middle of a grocery shopping trip. He's excited to find a grocery store, but he's also nervous about going there, since he hasn't been to one in a long time. He asks his friend, San, what he needs to buy, and he tells him that he has to leave the house. He also says that he doesn't know how to carry a lot of heavy stuff around, so he'd like to buy some ice cream. When he asks about his back, he says that his back is bothering him, so they're going to buy ice cream from the ice cream machine at the park. He tells his friend that he used to have ice cream all the time, but now he can't stand it anymore. He says that the last time he had ice cream, he was with a girl, and they stopped off to buy it. They're both happy to be back at school, and that's all they need to do now. They talk about how they broke up the night before, and then they decide to move out of their house.