It's been seven years since the events of the previous chapter, and the narrator is finally ready to tell the story of his life. He wants to tell her that he fell in love in high school, but he's afraid she'll be scared away by the fact that she's already married. He tells her that, seven years ago, he didn't confess his love to her because he was afraid that he'd lose her. But now, he wants to confess to her, no matter what she says or does. She's not the kind of girl who would run away when she sees a group of boys bullying her. The narrator says that she ran away from the boys when she saw them running away, but when she came back, she saw that they were running away from her. She goes on to say that she thought it was the boy who saved her back then, but now she thinks it's the man who ruined her life. She says she misses her, and she misses him, too, for seven years. She doesn't know what to say, but she knows that she can't blame herself for not trusting the man.