It's time for the next chapter, and the narrator asks what's going on. He's not sure if it's because he's looking for love or because he just wants to be alone. He tells the narrator that he wants to go on a date with a girl, and she's starting to hate him for it. He doesn't know why, but he thinks that's the way it is. He says that when he was in high school, he was pretty awful to her, and they drifted apart. Now, he says, he can't remember a single reason why she would like him. He asks her what she liked about him going out with her. She says that she liked him, or "smoke," or whatever you want to call it. The narrator says that he offered to sleep with her once they were "an item" and all, but she blew him off. He also says that the prom is coming up, and that he'd rather not tell her about it, since it would be exhausting. He thinks that maybe she sees him in her eyes, and he wonders if he'll ever be attracted to her again.