[I'm gonna go out of order cuz I missed my turn before...]
Rylee had cautiously kept his eyes on his menu as the other women seemed to be addressing a topic he felt he had no part in. She did look thin and rather ill but Rylee wasn't going to be the one to bring that up. If the girls felt it necessary, so be it, but he was going to remain quiet.
The mention of the fireworks was a near safe topic and a welcome one compared to what they had been discussing. It still brought a faint blush to his cheeks as he peeked up at the sisters and smiled shyly. "The fireworks were nice and entirely Charlie's idea," Rylee replied quietly before peeking a look at his best friend. "My father used to set off fireworks in our back yard when we were kids," Rylee began to explain to Fee. "Some summers we weren't home because my dad and I would go to Pennsylvania. But the summers we were around for the fourth Charlie would come over and we'd set them off. Well, even if we missed the fourth we still set off the fireworks at some point during the summer."
His eyes settled on Charlie and his smile immediately grew stronger. It was close to a secret smile, as if he had mentioned something only Charlie could understand, and that was true. Only she could understand the amount of fun they had as kids. His parents had been witness to it but his father was dead and his mother was back home. In California Charlie was the only person who truly knew him.