In the midst of a heavy thunderstorm, the narrator wonders if Le Bret is the "god of rain" . When he first arrived in France, he felt "out of place" and longed to resist the "everything around me" that surrounded him. Le Bret, he says, seemed to be "closer" to him than he was to "piter . . patter" , and when they began to get to know one another, the two of them began to miss each other's company. They would go to the "cake shop" that they used to frequent, and the narrator would think of Le Bret "the entire time ." Le Bret's heart is racing, and he is afraid of the thunder that is about to rumble. He asks Le Bret to come with him to his room so that he can use his phone as a way to check on his health. He tells Le Bret that he is not afraid of thunder anymore, and that he hopes it is okay if he