“We?” I said with a laugh. “Oh, hell no. You’re on your own with this one.”
Narrowing his eyes, he shot me a dirty look. “You bastard. You’re gonna leave me out to hang? Alone?”
The girls stopped in front of us. Each surveying the scene before their eyes.
Ari lifted her brow as she wore an inquisitive look.
“She knows,” I whispered.
Gunner hit my arm. “No, she can’t.”
“Josh and I need to run to the … um … to the store.”
My head jerked to look at him. “What?”
“What for? We have enough food for a week,” Ellie replied.
Ellie’s phone beeped and she lifted it. “It’s a text from your mom. Tell Drew he forgot to bring the two—”
Her eyes swung over to Gunner. She wore a horrified expression. “Gunner. You didn’t.”
Hitting him on the back, I laughed. “Oh, yes he did. Let the fun begin.”
“One job. You had one job.”
I pushed the cart down the aisle and tried not to listen to Ari.
“How in the hell do you forget to pack two giant containers of food? How?”
One. Two. Three. Deep breath in. Let it out.
“I could see forgetting your clothes. But the food? Really, Gunner?”
Four. Five. Six.
“He’s not even paying any attention to me,” Ari said as she threw in three bags of chips then totally had a mood shift. Clapping, she grinned wide and stated, “Oh, sloppy joes sound good!”
“Yeah, those do sound good!” Ellie agreed while looking at me and shrugging.
“I thought she wanted steaks?” I asked with a puzzled look.
Ari turned and pointed to me. “Hey, I want those too.”
Thank goodness there was an HEB close by or we would have been living off of snacks from the park store.
I watched as Ari, Heather, and Ellie loaded up the cart almost to the max. I knew camping brought out the munchies in all of us, especially with Heather and Ari being pregnant. Their love of certain foods certainly grew the last few months. But with the way they were loading up the cart, you’d think they were afraid we would run out of food.
“Y’all do know we’re only there for a few days right?” I asked.
Three heads turned and glared at me. “But Josh and Jeff do eat a lot of food,” I quickly added. Ari grinned and Ellie scrunched her nose up while walking over to me. Leaning in, she gently kissed my cheek. “Good save, babe.”
“Well, I was about to be shred to pieces by two hungry pregnant women.”
Ellie giggled and headed back over to the girls. After checking out, I loaded the new ice chest I had bought down with ice and filled it with the food. The girls were in the truck as I walked the cart back to the store.
Hitting Jeff’s number, I sighed.
“You get some food?”