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“I’d love to sit and talk with you about it. I think you can do better than local relative traffic.” She looked at Sawyer. “I think you will draw a very specific crowd. Nothing for your local cowboys to worry about.”
Sawyer grumbled.
“Now I’m very curious if the window in the pantry is still there?”
Joey shook her head. “Window in the pantry?”
“It’s how we used to get in when we were kids. The place was empty, of course, and we were sure it was haunted.”
Joey laughed. “I haven’t seen any signs of ghosts so far. But now I’m a little worried.”
“Do you mind if I look?”
“No. Go ahead. I’m as curious as you are.”
The women went into the pantry and Sawyer and J.T. went to the doorway. Jade stood in the middle of the space and took a moment to remember. She pointed toward a wall.
“Is that the outside wall?”
“Yes.”
“Then it was right…” She went to a patch in the wall. “Right here. It’s covered up.”
“You guys climbed through that?”
Jade looked at Sawyer. “We were a bit smaller in those days. I don’t think Sawyer would fit through it now.”
Sawyer scowled. “I was thirteen or fourteen. I hope I’m not the same size I was then.”
J.T. put his hands on Sawyer’s shoulders. “You definitely are not.”
They left the pantry and Joey looked at Sawyer. “What did you guys do in here?”
“Nothing.”
“Nothing?”
“We wandered around and looked for ghosts. You know. The usual thing you do in old abandoned houses when you’re a kid.”
“Whose ghost did you think you’d find?”
“Any ghost would have done. We weren’t too particular.”
Jade smiled. “We had a picnic or two in the living room. And one time we got caught here for a while when a freak hail storm hit. I think we had to stay about two hours. And I’m pretty sure we both got into some trouble for it. Although, I’m sure I got into more trouble than Sawyer did.”
Sawyer shrugged. “I just told Dad we were stuck until the hail storm ended. He was fine with it.”
“Did you tell him where we were?”
“No. He wouldn’t have been fine with that.”
Joey laughed. “How’d you get here? You weren’t old enough to drive.”
“We rode horses down the road.”
“That’s quite a ride by horse.”
J.T. frowned. “You left the horses out in the hail storm?”
