At the end of the first chapter, the narrator tells us that he's going to the sports festival to cheer for the boy he likes. He wants to cheer him on, but he also wants to be sociable. He says he used to think that the girl he likes was going to throw a hat at him, but now he thinks she's just going to run off with someone else. He's also worried about what the girl is going to do if he gets too close to her, because he doesn't want to be the one who gets "embarrassed" . The narrator asks the girl if she wants to talk to him more casually, and the girl says she'd be happy to do so. She also says that she likes that the boy she likes always talks to her with a smile, even when the narrator is "too blunt" , and she hopes that someday she'll be able to do the same with him.