Seventeen
“You were there for this memory.”
“I figured I must be,” Jed says. “Considering it involves Opeth.”
“There are actually a couple of memories bundled up in this one, though. Some involve fashion.”
“I can handle it.”
“Good. Right. So, it was November. We were all starting to prepare for final exams.”
Jed laughs. “Some of us more than others.”
I elbow him in the ribs. He almost drops the skate he’s holding by its laces. “Oi!” He elbows me back. “Go on then.”
I finish tying my own skate laces in a double bow (just to be safe). “All right. So it was November and Viggo had invited me over to his house for an ‘intensive study session’.”
“I do know this one!”
“Jed?”
“Yup?”
“Shush.”
Jed mimes zipping his lips.
I close my eyes. And remember. “I’d just done something pretty dr
