Chapter 11

Mark and Kat sat down to watch some TV and talk about Kat’s lure business while waiting on Emily to get up. It took Emily almost an hour to get up and dressed. When she finally came out into the living room Mark and Kat were still watching TV.

“Hi mom,” said Kat without turning around “It’s nice that you finally got up. I was beginning to wonder if you were going to sleep the entire day.”

“Kat, shut up, just shut up.”

“You ready to go Emi?”

“Can I eat first?”

“I don’t know, can you?”

“Is everyone in this house a smartass?”

“Better to be a smartass than a dumbass,” said Kat and Mark together. Emily gave them the bird and went to the kitchen and made herself a big bowl of popcorn.

“Ok ready to go.” Said Emily with the bowl of popcorn in one hand and a bottle of Mountain Dew in the other. Mark and Kat just chuckled as they got off the couch, turned off the TV, and went out to the truck with Emily.

When they got to Cabela’s, Emily was like a kid in a candy store. She was amazed at how fast she had taken to fishing and although she had never even thought of going hunting, she couldn’t wait to do that too. Of course, she was thrilled to watch the fish swimming around the big aquariums. She was even able to identify most of them and tell Mark and Kat the best ways to catch them and in what type of habitat to find them. She had been studying endlessly ever since they had taken her fishing. Emily was able to get her rods, reels, life jacket, and tackle box. Kat and Mark told her not to bother with buying lures; they would teach her how to make her own. They went over to the hunting section and Emily got warm weather and cold weather camo, hunting boots, and an upland hunting vest for rabbit and pheasant hunting. The entire time Emily was trying on hunting clothes, Mark couldn’t take his eyes off her. There was something about her in camo that set him on fire. Kat walked up to him a couple of times to push his mouth closed.

“Just wait till she’s packing heat Dad” Kat would tease. Mark didn’t even acknowledge her; he was so entranced by Emily. Emily wasn’t helping Mark any either. She was giving him flirty smiles over her shoulder and attempt to hide behind a clothes rack but wouldn’t try hard. Since Mark was pretty much useless right now, Kat helped Emily get all the gear that she would need for hunting with her and Mark. Mark finally snapped out of it when Emily gave him a passionate kiss. This disappointed some of the younger salesmen hovering around Kat and Emily. They were hoping for a shot with Emily. The three of them looked at some guns for Emily but didn’t see anything that fit Emily properly and wasn’t a rip-off.

“Don’t worry Emi. We still have plenty of time to find you something and plenty of places to check out. We also need to get you into a hunter safety course as well.”

“Oh, do I need that?”

“Yep, if you want to get a hunting license, and even IF the course was voluntary, it would still be a good idea. Don’t worry the courses are free through the DNR.”