The narrator tells us that he's staying at a friend's house in New York City. He's not sure where he is, but he does know that he has a painful chest injury. The narrator is bummed out that the cake he ate in the morning wasn't as sweet as it should have been, and that his new prosthetic arm isn't working as well as it used to. He also complains about the smell of perfume in the bedroom and the fact that he forgot to put his favorite dress in the luggage. He says he'll change the dress when he gets back to New York, but first, he wants to know why the school bus suddenly stopped. He asks the driver if he has fallen in love with his "sister" , and the driver says he has, but that he doesn't want to be embarrassed about it. He tells the narrator to go and confess his love to his sister, and she will say yes, and then he can go and tell everyone to go back to the school. But the first thing the narrator learns on the day he falls in love is to let his sister go.