It is March. Matt sends Ursula an email: “Dear Ursula, Thank you for the other day. Your friend Matt” (154).

Matt writes another email to Ursula. He wonders if their meeting on the ravine had a purpose beyond chance.

Ursula replies, agreeing that everything has a purpose.

Matt writes that their hiking together felt oddly familiar and comforting: “That was how I felt. With you. Hiking back down and not needing to talk, like there needed nothing to be said” (156). He deletes his message without sending it.

In a flashback, Matt is back at home just after his hike with Ursula. He tells Pumpkin he was not really going to commit suicide; “[e]ven if Pumpkin didn’t believe, Pumpkin trusted him” (158).