She did, and it was easier this time. They glided along for a few moments, dodging a few faster skaters, and Memory thought about how they had met the second time. It had been Ellie’s doing. She’d asked him to come by the shop. Although, she wasn’t quite sure that was the first time she’d seen adult Dak. “This is going to sound really weird, but, a few weeks ago, maybe the first day you were in Christmas Falls, you stopped by the coffee shop, didn’t you?”
He thought for a second, his head tipped up to the sky. “Uh, I’m not sure. Maybe. Why?”
“Well, that day, I was sitting outside of the coffee house before I opened the store, sipping a latte, my grandma’s journal on the bench next to me because I intended to start reading it. I still haven’t done that. Anyway, I got up to leave and left
