"Sorry, some mother," the narrator says, "things would be better had I just gone away." He's referring to his mother, who's back at the hospital, and he's sorry that she didn't throw him a party for his birthday last year. He also says that he hasn't changed much since that day, when he realized that he couldn't be happy without someone else's help. He wonders why he ever thought he could make anyone happy, and wonders if she'd have been happier if he'd just given her the pillow instead of sleeping on it. The narrator tells us that he and Ginger have gotten through their first fight, too, and that they're going to have a date to talk about the past few days. He tells her that he saw her hanging out with Ginger the other day, and she tells him that it was nothing, but that they got into an argument about it, and they talked it over. He says that if neither of them think they have anything to apologize for, it doesn't mean that Ginger is going to tell them to stop being who they are. He goes on to say that when they were younger, they were always surrounded by other kids, and Ginger was always alone with them. They'd all be raising their goldfish together, and then they'd invite someone else, and so on. Ginger says that satomi never once blamed her for killing the goldfish, but satomi is just covering for her. She says that she stayed with Ginger as much as she could, but it turned into a shadow of her old self, and it turned out that she could never make things right. She asks if she can ever forgive her, and the boss says she can't, since she said something wrong. The boss says that her boyfriend usually comes to walk her home when they get out late,