Since Ryan was too tall to ride the carousel, all he could do was stand outside the fence and wait for Mia to finish.
Ryan had always been a bit puzzled by Mia's mental age. She was clearly still just a young girl, but sometimes the mischievous ideas she came up with could make anyone blush—ideas that even someone ten years older might not be able to pull off so smoothly.
And just when you thought she was more mature, she'd go and choose something like the carousel, which was usually for little kids.
Ryan had actually ridden a carousel before. A few years ago, not long after he first met Bella, she had a natural resistance to everything. To get closer to her, Ryan had taken her on a carousel ride.