The narrator tells us that Em'ly loves to play the piano. She's so good at it, in fact, that when she was five years old, she went to see a friend play a piano recital. She was so impressed by the performance that she went back home and cried. She brought her parents out to the park to watch the recital, and when she came home, she told her parents that she'd gone to the recital because she was about to cry. The narrator goes on to tell us that the recital happened when Em was about 14 years old. She went to watch her favorite friend play, and she was so moved by his performance that her feelings for him spilled out of her. She tells the narrator that her love for the piano teacher was so strong that she convinced her mother to put him in the recital to see if he could hold his own against the other pianists. The piano teacher says that he can't believe that Emly would even try to play so well under such intense pressure, but he's still impressed by her talent.