When the narrator wakes up, he's so excited that he doesn't know what to say. He tells his mom that he fell asleep talking with his neighbor, who lives across the street, and that his mom heard it. He asks his mom if she heard it, and she says that she did. The narrator tells her that he wants to thank his neighbor for his kindness, but that he can't because his imagination is telling him that he always acted like this. He says that he'll give her a piggy back, and then he tells her to hurry up. He's worried that she's going to drop him, but she says she'll hold on tight. She wonders why he'd want to do this for her, or if he just wants to do it for anyone who's a friend of his. She feels weird, too, because she'd never felt so strange before.