When the chapter opens, the narrator is sitting in class, staring at his crush, and wondering what it means to be in love. He says that he'll live for love, and he won't get married. Marriage is where men die, he says, so he doesn't want to be a part of it. He also says that the government has decided to collect information about people's genetic makeup so that it can be used to predict who they'll be in the future. He's worried about what his future will be, but he's also excited about the idea of marriage, since it's the only thing that can save him from death. The narrator says that marriage is like a god, but that it'll never save him, because he'd rather live like a crazy person than marry someone. He adds that he would never marry, because marriage is a system that's not going to save him. He tells the class to get their note books out, because the government is going to collect their genetic makeup. He wants to know what's wrong with his crush. He wonders if she's lost her mind, or if she got lost on the way to class. He asks the class what grade she was in, and they all say that it was 5th grade, which is the same grade as the narrator's class. The class is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who are going to arrest the narrator for being in love with someone else. He runs off to find the girl, and the girl tells him that she likes him, too. The girl says that she has long eyelashes, blue eyes, and soft hair. She compares him to another girl in the class, and says that, compared to her, he isn't as pretty as she is. She says that her hair is soft, and her eyelashes are long. She tells the girl that she just blurted out the fact that she loves him, and that she didn't realize that he was lame. She asks the girl if she was lying, and she says she could just tell. She then asks him if he was lying when he said he wasn't lying. He replies that he could tell because he could see how lame he was when he was a kid. He then asks if the government notice why it had to come to this point, since he was going to keep his feelings to himself all his life. He thinks that the girl really hasn't changed, and