I can go and give you guys a report. Look, it’s gonna be dark soon and the mosquitoes will be out. I don’t even have a shirt. I got no shoes.” “Come on,” Jaden said, leading them down the street to Pioneer Alley, where they walked into a gift shop. Benji watched in horror as Jaden removed a pair of pink rubber flip-flops from a plastic bin and placed them on the checkout counter along with a flimsy white T-shirt with SpongeBob wearing a Yankees cap on it. The total came to seven dollars and change. Jaden took the money from her pocket, paid, and handed the stuff to Benji. “Shoes and a shirt,” she said. “No more excuses. SpongeBob even matches your shorts.” “Pink sandals?” Benji asked. “They’re kind of cute,” Jaden said. Benji moaned but dropped them onto the sidewalk and slipped them on along with the T-shirt. “Great,” he said, his words as glum as his expression. “Anne Hathaway’s at the Otesaga and I’m running around Cooperstown dressed like a Disneyland fairy.”
