"Do you need us to bring an extra lawn chair?" Tabitha asks, tapping her pencil on the piece of lined paper where she started a list for tonight's festival.
A group of us — me, Katy, Bennett, Tabitha and Ridge — are meeting up to watch the Fourth of July fireworks together down by the pier. Probably the place everyone is getting together to watch the Fourth of July fireworks.
I'd planned to bring a beach towel and sit on the sand. It's not like I packed a lawn chair in my car when I made the cross country drive to Pelican Bay, but I'm not one to refuse the offer of a seat. "Sure, if you don't mind."
She waves a hand in the air. "Ridge has a garage full of them."
It's hard to believe today's the Fourth of July. Most days it feels like it was yesterday when I loaded up the last of my bel
