He grinned. "Awesome, I'll see what I can do. Might be able to get you some freebies from the sponsors too." They often had stuff to hand out - free samples, lanyards, clothes all sorts of things. Though whether Lex would want her little sister trying a sample from his own sponsor, Ogden's finest, he wasn't entirely sure. "You saying my wife isn't cool enough for you, Lex?" He nudged her gently with his elbow. Yeah, he supposed that was his other big news, if she hadn't already noticed his tattooed wedding ring with his own initials entwined with Char's. "Don't worry, she won't try to babysit you."

She'd teach him to ride? "I'd like that." Just maybe it'd be better to wait until after the competition, and the thing at the end of the month. "Clarissa would have never condoned it." He shrugged matter-of-factly, Clarissa being how he now referred to his mother. "Bet Dad and I would have had a blast...we used to go surfing back in the day, but yeah..." The skateboard moved idly back and forth under his foot. "She'd have only destroyed it." And his allowance had been tight enough taking that risk for something he didn't know he would be able to ride was was stupid.

A 'new appreciation'? Benjy raised an inquisitive eyebrow. He was convinced there was something else there, but if he was honest to himself, he couldn't ever see her admitting it. And if she did, it'd only be when one of them, if not both, was caught off guard. "Fine." She wasn't the only one with problems, he'd had his own fair few in the years since he'd graduated. But he'd also learnt in that time to read between the lines better, so he dropped it and moved the conversation elsewhere.

"So, what's it gonna take for you to get back on a skateboard then, hmm?"