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It’s not like they’d had many traditional Thanksgivings in her life. The countries they lived in didn’t celebrate that holiday or they couldn’t get a turkey.
Their mother tried to give them American traditions, but it didn’t always come across successfully.
When she moved to Texas with her grandparents, she remembered the first time she’d gone out with friends the night before. Shocked like Dahlia at how busy it was, she’d asked and had been laughed at. They thought she was playing with them.
Just like so many other times in her life that she seemed clueless about what should have been common knowledge of events, sayings and traditions.
“The hard way,” she said.
“Hey,” Dahlia said. “I get it.”
“I know you do,” she said. “I shouldn’t have said that. I mean it doesn’t happen much anymore. Does it to you?”
Dahlia shrugged. “Not really. Or if it does, people write it off as me being anti-social.”
“I get it written off as being an airhead.”
“Which you hate,” Dahlia said.
“Mostly,” she said. “I’m glad we decided to still do this.”
“You didn’t want to,” Dahlia said. “I had to twist your arm and you know it.”
She sighed. It was the first magician she’d see, but Dahlia had made a comment about it being fun and since her sister never did much she bought the tickets as an excuse to get out of the house and have someone to go with.
If her sister had bailed she’d be on her own. Everyone was married or had a significant other they were spending time with.
Those not married had plans. Heather was in New Hampshire visiting her parents with Luke. Daisy’s mother was coming to town and meeting Theo for the first time, so they were getting ready for that.
It’s like she and Dahlia were the loser singles.
“I know the house will be fine. We can’t stay in forever.”
“Nor would you want to. As I said, back on the horse.”
She rolled her eyes. “I don’t ever want to get on a horse. Do you?”
“No,” Dahlia said. “Riding that donkey was enough.”
Ivy burst out laughing. She remembered that now. The experience she remembered but not where they lived at the time. One of the villages had donkeys they used to carry things and the kids would ride them at times. Mark got up on one and said it was fun. Dahlia did it next and screamed the whole time. All five seconds of it before the donkey kicked her off. That ended up scaring Ivy enough to not do it. But she had to be five or six because Chase was still in diapers.
“Daisy said her ass and thighs hurt like the hell the next day after she and Theo went riding,” she said.
Daisy had gone on a date with Theo horseback riding. It sounded romantic, but the more she thought of it, she realized she’d never want any part of it.
“Are you sure it wasn’t from all the sex they had?”
“Did you just crack a joke?” she asked. She wiped an imaginary tear from her face. “I’m so proud of you.”
Dahlia grinned. “I’m not as much of a tight ass as you think I am.”
“How did you know that was Daisy’s first night with Theo?”
“I didn’t,” Dahlia said. “I just was cracking a joke. But I should have figured you’d know.”
She always wanted to talk to her sister about those things, but Dahlia could have cared less about details with other people.
Not that she didn’t like people or wasn’t involved in their lives, but Dahlia didn’t get bogged down with intimate information like who was having sex and when.
