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As long as Jared had his skateboard, he was happy. A lot of the things he had grown up considering to be his, other than his clothes, had been left behind at Hull House. The staff would have liked to give the boys more, but there just wasn't the money for it. Jared hadn't minded all that much. It might have mattered more if he could have been able to properly touch and feel his meager belongings, but it was hard to make emotional connections to things when he couldn't manage a physical connection to them. The counselor at Hull House said he employed this tactic when it came to people as well. Jared had simply shrugged, refusing to acknowledge the words one way or another.

His board, though? They hadn't taken that away. He wouldn't have let them. Even if they hadn't given it to him, he would have found a way to smuggle it out. Hell, what were they gonna do? He was already leaving. There would be no sense in kicking him out. The skateboard was nothing special. It was beat up with mismatched tires and stickers on it of bands he hadn't even heard of much less liked. Still, though, it was his board. He had done the best he could with it. Snowboards and skis were easy to just use his force field to recreate, but he hadn't been able to manage a skateboard replacement yet.

Jared had wanted to teach Adrian to skateboard for a while, but considering how easily his brother seemed to get hurt, it just hadn't seemed advisable. But here there were healers, which made things a little less risky. Besides. Adrian needed to start growing some balls.

Jared made a lazy circle on his board, keeping an eye on the school as he did so to try and catch a glimpse of his brother. There would be nothing fancy. Not today. Well. Maybe something a little fancy. Close to fancy. Something Adrian could use to impress those girls he seemed to be so leery of.

Okay, time to do more broadening of Gert's horizons. Because really, who the hell, especially a girl like Gertrude Yorkes, had not seen Shrek? Shrek was epic. All of the movies were good. Even the third one where they all have kids. And the fourth one. Shrek like managed to stay awesome through all the sequels even.

So they were having a Shrek movie marathon. It was Friday night and there was absolutely no reason she could refuse. Well, there was, but Chase wasn't going to let her have that option. He'd even buy dinner again. So he was outside her door at 7pm, with his copies of all four movies, knocking.