Beginning this next and final chapter, Sam starts off with the birth of his son, Rufus. As earlier mentioned in the book, Rufus's nickname was Roof. With Rufus being born on September eleventh, Sam moved in two days later in with Alicia. The next morning, Sam wakes up with Roof crying, and the beginning of his previous dreams are starting to happen right before his eyes. Later on he gets into a small fist fight with a stranger, and accidentally kicks him in the crotch area, very similar to what happened in his dreams. Sam also gets into a fight with Alicia about their personal relationship and about how he might have been happy if the other guy, the one he got into a fight with, was the father. Later on, or in the story its a couple of weeks after the fights, Sam gets a call from his father about visiting him with the baby. After that, Sam goes home and starts talking to his Tony Hawk poster about his father and how he would write a book, without his father being in it, and starts to get even more separated from Tony Hawk, up to the point where he thinks his advice is pointless. Sam then gets into worse fights with Alicia that almost have him ending up not seeing Roof again. By the time the book came to a closing, Sam concludes by saying that every story has a beginning, middle, and end, where his story is going to stay in the middle for a long time, and started to answer questions about what happened after the end of the story, or rather the middle.
"It wouldn't be so bad if Roof had looked round and gone, you know, " Hooray! Daddy!" But he didn't, because he was one day old.
When reading this quote from the book, I started to thin that it would really cool if babies would be able to talk the day after they were born. This would mean an automatic super baby, sort of like supernatural powers, like the Fantastic Four. Powers that would have been involved in rays that enhanced their regular human abilities.
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