Chapters 5 & 6: Agony and Love Poems!; Distractions Caused by a Bare Chest! Summary

While she shoots her film, Ruby asks Noel to define friendship. He says that a friend is someone who wants your updates, even the boring, sad and cute ones. He says that he wants to hear all Ruby's updates, especially because he's leaving for New York to visit his brother Claude and won't be able to call Ruby every day. When he leaves, Ruby knows that Noel is her "real live boyfriend" because he calls from places like the Guggenheim or a cheap dumpling place, just to say "hi" and how much he misses her. Then one day he doesn't call. Or respond to any of Ruby's emails. The next day is Ruby's seventeenth birthday so she's sure she'll get a call from...