The narrator tells us that the first time they met, he was smaller than the narrator, and that he wore his hat, too, until high school. The narrator says that he should have been touched by the news, but that he was worried that the rumors would spread. He asks the narrator to come up with a solution to the problem, and the narrator suggests that the two of them have a competition to see who can get the bigger piece of the cake. After all, the narrator says, he used to be the one to take care of the boy when they were kids. He says that after the cake, he could see why rumors had spread about the friendship, and he was shocked to find that even his parents didn't take good care of him like this. He feels that he is deeply touched, but he doesn't know if he really likes the boy. He wonders how he could feel this