- In a poem, Lennie talks to Bailey about Wuthering Heights. Bailey asks what she loves so much about that book, and Lennie admits that she wants to feel that kind of love—a love that is stronger than death.
- Lennie goes to the forest bed and feels stupid for waiting there.
- Joe shows up, and he has all of Lennie's poems with him—all the poems she's left around Clover, the ones that have been interspersed throughout our book.
- He explains that at first he stumbled across a couple of them, then he started looking for them. They made him understand what Lennie was going through more, and why she might've hooked up with Toby.
- At last. Lennie and Joe make up (and make out).