 They decide to send him to a mental asylum, but on the night they're supposed to leave, Miss Peregrine and her peculiar children come and visit Jacob, affirming his insistence to his shocked parents that the peculiars are indeed real.It is also revealed that, because of the loop closing around them, the internal time clocks of the peculiars have been restored so that they no longer have to worry about the years they've lived in loops catching up to them - they age like regular human beings while being in the present.Closing the book, Emma and Jacob decide to keep being friends for the time being before taking things slow in properly restarting their romantic relationship, now that they have time enough to do so.