The next few days pass, and the relationship between the two men is still like it was when they first met in the barracks. The narrator says that he's like an hourglass, waiting for the right moment to give up and give up struggling. He asks if he still wants to go out with the other men, but they won't let him. He tells them that he still has things to do, but he doesn't want to do it because he feels like he needs to. He says that since he left the barracks when he was 15 years old, the only thing that has made him special to him is that he has always been by his side.