This chapter opens with the narrator's description of the house where he, his mother, and father were supposed to live together. The narrator tells us that the house is "too clean for that" , and that it's now ready to be used as a place to live whenever someone returns. He compares the house to a karaoke place, where he used to hang out with his friends. He says that the people who live there are "slacker" than the people at home, and he compares them to guards in suits and "floral dresses" . He also says that he's never been yelled so much at as an adult. This is the first time the narrator has been yelled at in his life. This chapter ends with him complaining about the glare he got from the guards at the party. He thinks they're just like his friends at home. They don't press like artists, he says. They're "the scruffy I didn't ! . . but a 'raunchy man' . like a 'pink house' or mirko . " . he says, and then he compares the guards to a "friar dress" or a " frilly dress." He's not sure if she's trying to flatter him or not, but he doesn't want to flatter her. She's probably trying to get him to do something for a magazine. The guards, she says, are "not a stranger" to her, though, and she thinks that he works for "a big publisher." She says that she thought he was a "scout" for a fashion magazine, but that if she assumed that he was "a scout," she'd be flattered. She says she thinks he could do it, but if she thought that he