In this chapter, the narrator laments the fact that he is the first boy in the history of the school to be asked to go out on a date with another boy. He also laments that the girl he loves, Mashima, is not as popular with boys as she is with other boys because she does not know about the boy's playing. He thinks that she is not popular because she is shy, but because of the poems he has written about love, which are so strong that they cannot be fully concealed. The narrator thanks Mashima for her kindness and wishes her luck in the future. He tells her that he will always remember the poems about love that he wrote about her.