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“I did?” Kat swallowed.
“You did,” I agreed, gently popping into the conversation.
“I-I don’t know why.”
“Do you not like boats?” Star questioned.
Her head whipped to the side. “I don’t.”
“Do you know why? We’ve never been on a boat together so it must have happened… before.”
Kat blinked a couple times. “I just don’t like boats.”
“But you love swimming,” Star pointed out.
“Swimming is different. Swimming is in a pool.” She shuddered. “The ocean…”
“Technically, the Hudson is a river. If that helps any,” I remarked.
Star snorted. “He’s right.”
Kat giggled. “It’s not the same as a pool, Conor!”
“Don’t you want to see the Statue of Liberty, Kat?” I questioned carefully.
“I’ve seen her.”
“From a distance. On a boat, you can get up close and personal. Always so much to do on the water,” I peppered.
She shivered. “I don’t want to get wet.”
“That’s what a boat is for,” Star murmured. “So you won’t get wet. Do you feel like trying? It’s still light enough?”
Kat licked her lips. “You promise that I won’t get wet?”
“Nope.”
“We could take the Staten Island Ferry. The terminal’s two blocks away,” I said easily.
“It’s also free. Conor’s such a cheapskate, Kat,” Star teased.
I didn’t mind being poked fun at, not when it made Kat chuckle. When I started tickling her and she shrieked in joy, I declared, “I’m not a cheapskate! Say it, Kat, say it!”
“Conor’s a cheapskate, Star!” She cackled when I made a mock growl and dangled her by her calves.
Star, staring at the pair of us, shook her head. “If she’s sick, you get to clean it up.”
“I’m not going to be sick!” Kat screeched then whooped when I hovered her gently above the floor.
“You gonna do a handstand for us?”
She pressed her hands to the floor. “Okay, let go, Conor!”
When she walked a few paces on her hands then did some flip thing, Star and I shared a smile—she was back.
For the moment.
That was how I ended up on the Staten Island Ferry just so I could glance at the statue I’d seen almost every day I’d been alive up close and personal.
