"He thought he'd warned me that his school is inside a modeling agency." Elias wastes no time piping back, skating back and stopping, making a point to check out Spencer. Ira doesn't stop. He's learned not to. He pokes his hockey stick out in front of Spencer's feet, this time.

"Roommate out of school, roommate in school." He makes his introductions with subsequent nods. Elias just laughs, and pays attention to the boy he doesn't know. "You should bully him more, he's earned it. If he'd warned me, I would've come single."

From somewhere far away but not really, Ira sighs.