“She said she still had my skeleton necklace in a storage locker, so maybe she kept them there.”
“She did seem pretty attached to the clothing,” Kinsley said. “Remember how she warned us to be careful with it?”
Jada nodded.
Kinsley stood. “Let’s get over to the cabin and ask her if she kept it. I know she can’t skate, but we can invite her to come to the skating night. Colin and Brooklyn, too.”
Dev hadn’t been so thrilled when it was first mentioned, but now his excitement built over going back to the old roller rink. He suddenly wanted to share the night with everyone he knew. “Why don’t we invite the whole team and their families? It would be a great time for Kinsley to meet everyone.”
He imagined the night. The attire.Oh, no.
“What isthatlook for?” Jada asked.
Should he say? They’d talked about not hiding things from each other. This was minor, but… “I just thought about Barbie Maddox.”
“Maddox?” Kinsley asked. “Any relation to your boss and his brothers?”
“Their mom. She still dresses like a hippie from the sixties. She’s bound to have a lot of things she could share, if she’s willing.”
“She’s a real throwback, all right.” Jada rolled her eyes.
“Then let’s invite her too,” Kinsley said. “If she dresses like that, she must be fun.”
“She is.” Dev didn’t know if introducing Kinsley was a good idea or not, but Barbie had a heart of gold under the wild escapades she shared. “She’s always full of stories, and she’ll talk your ear off if you let her.”
“Then I want her to come with us even more, and we should probably make dinner arrangements too.” Kinsley swiped down on her screen. “I wonder if they still do pizza, and if it’s as good as I remember.”
“You know what they say about you can’t go home again,” Dev said. “Their pizza might’ve been good when we were young, but now that we’ve experienced pizza elsewhere, it might not be so great anymore.”
“Probably isn’t what you’d expect,” Jada said. “But it’ll have the taste we remember, and even if it isn’t great, it’ll be another special memory.”
Dev knuckled his sister’s shoulder. “I never knew you were so sentimental.”
She laughed. “It was hard to be girly around two brothers, so I hid that side of me. But I’ve released it later in life.”
“They still do pizza.” Kinsley’s excited voice grabbed his attention. “We can get a headcount of how many people will be attending and then order the pizza in advance so it’s ready when we arrive.”
Dev nodded. He didn’t know how a simple ticket stub turned into a Blast From the Past at their old roller rink. Something at first he thought might be kind of lame. But now? Now that it had expanded to include all the people he cared about, especially Kinsley, he was on board, and he was sure they were going to have a great evening. One for her memory box.
