The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which the narrator explains that he is sick of basketball and wishes he could keep it up for the next week. He asks the girl from the listening house if she knows anything about the boy from class, and she says that she does not. The girl asks if she can apologize, and the narrator says that they are not until the boy is mean that they can live in "completely different worlds" . He tells her that he hopes the boy will come to him soon to listen to what he has to say about the upcoming week. When the boy does not come, the narrator asks him to come back in four days to tell him what he needs from the basketball. When he does not, he falls asleep listening to the book. He wakes up to find that the ghost of a young girl is waiting at the front gate of the school. The narrator is glad that he spoke to the girl without running away. He says that he will come back to the school again to hear more from the boy.