Robbie and Caroline don't have much to do with each other during the day but had arranged to walk back home together after school and Robbie is waiting by the gates as Caroline leaves.
He immediately seems different. Taller somehow and his hair seems to have been styled much more trendily compared to his usual neat but dull side parting with no kind of hair product. It feels strange for a moment to Caroline but suddenly she remembers her friend has always been much taller than her and has always taken pride in his appearance, often spending ages in front of the mirror before they leave the house together and whiling away the time in the gym he'd set up in his parents basement trying to improve his body.
Robbie hasn't noticed Caroline yet and she watches him as he watches other girls go past. Typical Robbie, always perving on the girls but never having the courage to speak to anyone, she thinks.
She greets her friend and they walk back home together.