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Noah misses his sisters all the time. Aside from them he hasn't known many kids, and he never paid much attention to the ones in Darrow. Agatha's the youngest he's met here, but he doesn't consider her little. She's an old soul, she lives on her own and she's self-sufficient. It's only since meeting Jack that it really hit Noah that kids could end up here without their parents. Noah can't imagine what it would be like to be that young and show up in a place like this, how alone and confusing that must be. Jack seems to be handling it well as far as Noah can tell, but he still wants to do something nice for the kid.

Kid's skateboards don't cost that much, and Noah can't stop thinking about how much Jack liked riding around on his, so he decides to buy him one. Then he realizes Jack will need pads and a helmet, and there's this set with a really awesome dinosaur helmet and matching design on the board, so he gets all of it.

He brings all this to the children's home to surprise Jack, and thankfully finds him playing outside in the yard since he has no idea what protocol is for visitors at this place. "Hey, Jack," he calls and waves, leaning against the fence.

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[37hours]

I giggle real quiet when Noah whispers back to me, I like that he did the same thing as me, that's what friends do. I look up at the taxi driver only a little bit, the taxi driver doesn't say lots so I think he probably doesn't like to talk so much. I wish he did because then I would talk to Noah about what it's like to drive fast, because I know cars go fast but I don't think Grandma drove her car faster than other cars so maybe that's not driving fast.

I looked on the map that I have and there's lots of places that don't have so many buildings and lights, they call it the countryside, I bet you can get a car and drive super fast there.

"Whoa, we're close to the beach!" I say when we're out of the taxi. I think I'm a little bit loud because some people look at us, I should be a little more quiet. "This is awesome, we can skate and we can go to the beach later if we want, I didn't know there were so many cool things here. I'm so ready."