About half an hour later, Jared made it back home. He hadn't been here in a week. He wondered what his family thought had happened to him. But he couldn't worry too much about that right now. He had to find the magic belt buckle.
Thankfully, nobody seemed to be home, so he managed to get up to his room without being seen. He didn't know how he would have explained being naked (though he no longer noticed that he was wearing a brass ring in his nose), ball-less, and missing for a week. Fortunately, with the help of the magic belt buckle, none of that would matter.
He dashed into his room, which seemed a lot tidier than when he left it. Someone had been cleaning. His bed, for example, was made, even though he had left the sheets in disarray. But where was the belt buckle? He had left it on his bed... but it wasn't there. Jared quickly began searching everywhere for it.