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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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Some days, the adults don't have time to take us lots of places. All of them are busy making sure that we have enough money to buy food and other things, or sometimes lots of the kids are sick so the adults have to keep us at the Home so that they can help the sick kids feel better. Today all the adults are too busy to take me to other places, but that's why I got lots of books from the library last week, I can spend so much time reading them and still learning lots. I like reading outside more than inside because the air feels more clean and you can smell lots of things in it.

It's like the first time I went out of Room, I could smell the trees and grass and then the rain.

I'm reading a book called Magic School Bus, there are lots of books like that at the library and I liked collecting them all because one of my friends talked about it when I first got to Darrow and then I wanted to watch and read it all. This one is about what's inside your body, there are lots of red blood cells and they travel everywhere, wow! They're like little spaceships.

I hear someone calling out to me, I flip the book upside-down so that I don't lose my place — but wow! It's Noah! I didn't expect to see Noah!

"Noah!" I yell, and I run over to give him a hug. "Did you come to visit me?"