Part 7, p. 140 - 157 Summary

Will describes how he keeps holding his breath each day until he sees Mi Su and how afraid he is of all the things he thinks she might do that indicate that she likes BT better than him. "Is that what love is," he wonders, "fear?"

Will dreams that while he and Mi Su are looking at the stars, the stars they're watching keep winking out like disappearing protons.

Will watches a rehearsal for "The Music Man" as Mi Su gives her all to a musical number, and imagines that she actually knows he's there and is doing it for him.

In the middle of the crowded lunchroom, Mi Su announces her sudden intention to become an actress, telling Will that she's changed her mind and no longer wants to be an astronomer. She leads the other students in...