Honey exits her apartment building and walks down the street, finding Raymond sitting despondently outside of a barbershop. Raymond reports that his mom has ordered him to do something with his hair. Honey accompanies him inside to find Chaz, the gentleman who plays basketball at the Centah, also the owner and operator of this establishment.

Chaz makes Raymond feel at ease, giving him a haircut and braids and taking this opportunity to ask Honey out several times. Honey seems receptive, but insists she is too busy to go out.

Honey walks Raymond back home to the projects. When Honey knocks on the door, Raymond’s mother yells at her for spending time with her son and slams the door in Honey’s face.

Meanwhile, Benny has graduated from observer to dealer, now making sales of his own with his drug dealing friends. Honey walks by and notes the situation with sadness.

If there is one thing we have learned about Honey Daniels, it's that her life is governed by mind-blowing coincidences, frequently resulting in life improvement. Indeed, it is no wonder Honey saunters around the Bronx smiling all the time, when even her own ineptitude cannot impede her journey to stardom ; possibly, Jessica Alba's personal identification with Honey in this regard is what drew her to this project, and the foundation of her rich, nuanced performance.

As Honey exits her apartment building purposefully, we barely have time to wonder what that purpose may be before it is abandoned the instant she is confronted with Raymond's glum demeanor. Instead, the viewer is left wondering on what prior commitment Honey spends this clip reneging; alternatively, is is possible that Honey understands the nature of her existence well enough to know that whatever happens next will spontaneously present itself 20 feet from her door, which is exactly what happens.

Further alerted to the barbershop's significance by the entirely diegetic Casio score fading out as she approached, Honey enters to find out it is coincidentally owned by Chaz, her love interest for the film. Even more luckily, she is accompanied by Raymond, a precocious tyke who charms everyone in the barbershop by claiming to have "flow." Considering Chaz's flagrant interest in Honey, this would seem like a recipe for romance, if not for his ill-advised assumption that Honey is Raymond's mom. Clearly, Chaz lacks a fundamental understanding of the concept of flirtation, perhaps confusing the "Your mom could be your sister" method with "You look old" and/or "You were a teen slut."

Indeed, although Honey's trademark smile barely wavers, she is compelled to actually do the math out loud to indicate what Chaz is implying: "He's eight. That would have made me 14. I'm not that kind of girl." Fortunately, as it does with everyone in this storybook Bronx, sheer adorability wins back the room as Raymond explains his affiliation with Honey: "We peoples!" To be fair, however, Raymond wouldn't have to be that charming to put a smile on the faces of these fun-loving stylists, including Fonzworth Bentley , who has just arrived from the set of Idlewild with insufficient time to change out of costume.

Later, as Honey walks Raymond home, this Bronx resident is finally exposed to the one thing she has managed to avoid her whole life: people who actually look like they live in the Bronx. Honey resembles a walking J. Crew catalog as she struts through the projects, though her speech patterns indicate that she is just as "street" as the poor people around her. Nevertheless, Honey is taken aback by the hostility she encounters from Raymond's mother, a grouchy drug addict who berates Honey for being lazy. Honey's shock is certainly mirrored by our own, as this is the only scene in the film resembling reality in any way.

Finally, just for good measure, Honey walks down the street and coincidentally witnesses Benny selling drugs. The look on her face suggests disappointment in Benny's choices, but in fact, she is still badly shaken by Raymond's mom lack of response to her infectious smile.