The chapter opens with a flashback to the time when the four of them used to be friends, and the narrator tells us that he's not surprised that they're back together now. He's been thinking about this for a long time, he says, and he wants to make sure that they don't destroy all the good things that they have. He wants to be able to choose who he'll choose to be his future wife. The flashback shows that he and the others used to have a lot of fun hanging out together, and that they had a prom. The narrator says that he doesn't know what the heck's going on, but he does know that he wants her to marry him.