The second half of the chapter is set in a cafe in the middle of the night. It's the last part of the first half, and it's about to end when the narrator enters. He tells us that he's had a good time. He's just had a bad day. He doesn't know what's going on with his life, and he'd like to talk to someone. He wants to know if there's anything he can do to make his life better. He asks if he can pick him up and take him to the park. He also asks if they can have a meeting of the school's sports festival committee. The narrator says that's a good idea, but that he needs to make sure that everyone in the class gets copies of the newspaper. He says that he stopped collecting the newspaper because he wanted to tell the second person that he was in love with her.