The third section, "Oscar is Brave" describes his continuing disappointment in not getting himself a girlfriend in his Senior year at Don Bosco Tech, and his simmering jealousy of his two video games playing friends Al and Miggs who had succeeded in doing so.
One day, Al bragged that he met his girl by chance for the first time at Menlo Park Mall and that she informed him that another friend of hers was desperate in neeed of a boy friend. So, Al introduced Miggs to his newly acquired girlfriend who did the rest. Oscar came to know of this only a week later when they were in the midst of a very exciting video game. Initially, Oscar accepted the news of his friends' success stoically but deep down he was peeved that his friends had excluded him from their sexual adventures. He was especially astounded by the fact that Miggs had succeeded in getting a girl for himself because "Miggs was an even bigger freak than himself." He was completely dejected and depressed when both his friends told him that their girlfriends "don't have any other friends."
Oscar began to introspect. He spent a lot of time in front of the mirror studying his reflection and came to the conclusion that he was a "Morlock" - an ugly and repulsive video games character. He then decided to follow partially his sister's advice and have a physical makeover - had a barber get rid of his afro, shaved his moustache, substituted contact lenses for his glasses and "starved himself dizzy" in an effort to lose weight.
Al and Miggs were puzzled by these "changes." Although he went out to the movies with them, secretly he was jealous of their success and began avoiding them completely. When Al and Miggs asked him him why he was avoiding them he lied to them that he was "finishing up his first novel."
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