"Love Beyond the Stream" is the title of this chapter's epigraph. It's a quote from the play's opening lines, "Love beyond the stream, whoa" . In other words, love isn't just a stream of words, it's also a person. The narrator asks the audience to imagine what it would be like to be loved by someone "beyond the stream." The narrator tells us that he's grateful for the opportunity to love someone who's beyond the "stream." He asks if the narrator believes that the narrator's story about the do over is true or not, and the narrator replies that he doesn't care whether the story is true. He's just grateful that he got to know the narrator better. He says that the more he learned about the narrator, the less he realized that he wasn't the type for cheering, and that he was "negative, aloof, opinionated, and had a short fuse." He wants to know what motivates the narrator to cheer up. He asks the narrator why he joined the school in the first place, and he says that he probably felt the same way when he saw the narrator and decided to become a member of the school's cheer team. He tells the narrator that he and the other members of the cheer team are tired, and they need to get well before they can cheer up again. They eat boiled eggs, drink water, and talk about how tired they are. They joke about how they're supposed to be practicing so hard, but they feel like they've just practiced the very basics of cheering. They'll have to figure out a way to make their cheering unique and original. They cheer up the other students, who are all wearing open-collared clothes, and cheer them up. They tell them that they