in this chapter, the midget wakes up peculiar to seeing three guns and tries to get out of the situation. sylvester then begs bridget and james to put their guns down, to which they adamantly refuse. bridget then tells sylvester she will drop the gun if james does not hurt the midget, whose name is revealed as "big man", a stripper at a club called dixie's. when sylvester asks why he was named that, the midget points down to his pants and tell him he is "blessed". after seeing sylvester and big man communicating, james shuts them up calling them "chuck and rufus", which confuses sylvester, who demands to know how james knew of them, though james acts bewildered to sylvester's question. just as james looks as if he was going to answer, bridget starts getting sick. it is then revealed that bridget is three months pregnant, presumably with james' baby. after james' constant prompts to sylvester, twan and big man with his gun to leave, bridget stops him and admits paying big man and even admitted that she knew that james had been cheating on her with gwendolyn, saying that she had followed him around. when james demands to know what bridget is really telling him, bridget says that big man is her baby's father, which negates her previous excuse from chapter 8 as being "that time of the month". big man again faints at the news.