After we were done giving blood Steve and I got into his car.
"You know I am okay with taking my van. You don't have to waste your gas."
"I am perfectly okay with using my car because we don't need you to have a vision while your driving. Besides if we take a smaller vehicle then we will spend less."
"Hahaha I used to believe that, but it never worked out that way."
"So where are we going first? And do we have any ideas about lunch?"
" First of all can the guys pick up more than what you already told them to get. I'm sorry but we need to be ready for this winter. It will be bad and I don't want the last part of the vision to come true. We need to be stocked up on blankets, warmer clothes, shoes lots of shoes, and of course the food, water and candles. Also we are going to need to make sure the generators are in perfect working order. We will need to make sure we have gas and oil for them by October first."
"What is it that you see, this way I know what to be ready for. I don't plan to loose any of my pack but I need a better idea of what is coming for us."
"October 21st is when the blizzard will start. I can't tell if it's in the morning or afternoon. We need to be ready if we are not than I see us loosing at least twenty people including you and my brother. I refuse to allow this to happen so please just get the things I ask done. The children do not deserve to die because the adults are not ready.."
Steve pulls the car onto the shoulder of the road then he comes around to my door. He pulls me out and just holds me. I can't help it I start crying. He holds me till it's over. Then he hands me a tissue. After he makes sure I'm okay he puts me back in the car. Then he gets back in the car. Once he pulls back out on the road he say," Don't worry we will not loose anyone to this storm. Make a list we will get everything on it. Once we get back we will get complete lists of sizes for everyone of the children. I will also tell the adults to start preparing for a bad winter. I know the lazy people will not be prepared but that is no excuse for the children to suffer. Don't worry nothing will happen to your brother."
"I don't want anything to happen to you either. This is going to be bad. The one good thing I get from this vision is that we survived the war that will be here in a month and a half."
"Yea that's true. Okay get to working on the list we can buy in bulk and I will send out a second truck."
"When we get back I still want to check out the full pack grounds. There is something I need to see, I'm just not sure what it is yet."
"That's not a problem. I will show you around myself. Now let's stop thinking doom and gloom and start thinking food. I don't know about you but I'm getting hungry."
" Should we eat first then? I'm getting hungry myself. We are about ten minutes from the mall."
"I tell you what, let's eat here."
As he says this Steve pulls into Applebees. It's only been opened for a few minutes so it's still nice and quite. We get seated right away. The server comes over and take our drink orders while we look at the menus. We both order Dr pepper. When she comes back Steve orders the loaded potato skins and the chicken wings as appetizers and chicken fajitas and I order the steak fajitas for the main dish.
Now the whole time we are ordering the waitress is hitting on Steve. It's funny to watch because she starts out by stroking his shoulder. Then she starts laughing at everything he says. Then she runs her tongue over her lips. Then she starts playing with his hair. The whole time he tries to lean away from her. He asks her to stop a few times. When she asks if there is anything else he says no. She slips her phone number under his hand and tells him," Well if you need me call me." Then she goes to the back of the house.
Once she is gone he gets up and walks away. At first I'm thinking he is going to go call her but then I see him go to the bar. I'm really not to watch as he talks to the guy there. The guy leaves, when he comes back he has someone else with him. Steve talks to him for a few minutes then hands him the paper with the phone number on it. He points in my direction and says something else. Then the other gentlemen takes the paper and walks away. Then Steve comes back and sits down. He looks at me and says," I'm sorry about that. But we are getting a new server so that doesn't happen again."
After we get the new server lunch goes much better. The manager comes to the table to make sure everything went well. He also says he took care of the check. We said thank you, left the new waiter a twenty dollar tip then went to the mall.
Once we get to the mall we go strait to Game stop. We go looking around first, Steve decided to pick up four ps4 machines and four ps5 machines. He also gets six switches. Then he gets several games for each machine. I get the ps5 machine and four games I had on hold. Then I pick out four games for my switch and two games that I knew William wanted for his switch. Once we are done paying for things we take it all strait to the car. We put everything away and lock it up. Then we go back to the mall, we head over to the Camping and More store. We wander around in there for a while picking up sleeping bags, lanterns, thermals, blankets, heavy duty flash lights, plenty of batteries, candles, and parkas. Steve sets it up so the boys can pick it up later. Then we go to boxes and Crates. There Steve orders six dozen large storage totes. The manager says they will be ready by four. Steve sets it up so the guys will pick it up then. After that we go to the craft store. I pick out coloring books, paint sets, wood carving kits, jewelry making kits, beads, fabric, yarn, and the smaller items needed for both, as well as other crafting things. Once again Steve arranges to have it picked up later.
Then we go to the toy store and pick up board games, small hand held video games, more coloring books, coloring supplies, and craft kits. Next we go to the book store. We get a variety of books for all ages, as well as comic books, and mangas. I also find a set that I have been looking for for William so I get them. And again Steve has it set up so the guys can pick it up later. Finally we hit the movie store. There we get a variety of movies. We get four compies of everything in the store. Steve sets it up so they can be picked up and we leave the mall. All total we both spent a combines total of 10,976.23. Not bad for everything we got. It was the games that cost the most.
Once we were back in the car we started on our way home. We talked about our trip then we talked more about the upcoming war and winter.
Once we made it back to the pack grounds Steve took the machine into the pack house. He put both a ps4 and a ps5 in the game room. He put out half the games and with in ten minutes people were checking out the machines.
He put the other machines and games in his office. He also agreed to hide Williams birthday gifts in his office.
Then we went back downstairs. As we were headed to the kitchen he got a call form one of the drivers. Everything had been successfully picked up and they were on their way back.
Then we went to the kitchen to get something to eat. Steve let Cassie and I know our canning order was on its way home. We were excited, we planned to start canning tomorrow after things were unloaded.
After we ate Steve walked me back to my place. We sat in the front room for a few minutes. I leaned into Steve and he put his arm around me. After sitting like that for a minute Steve said,"Oh I really don't want to move but I am completely exhausted. I need sleep."
I agree with him. We get up and I walk him to the door. He opens it then leans down to kiss me. After a moment I forget I'm tired, I wrap my arms around his neck. I lean into him as he wraps his arms around my waist. Everything is progressing well when I hear Mate, mate, mate in my head. I pull back from Steve and say,"What was that?"
"What's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
"No, I heard someone yelling mate repeatedly."
He smiles and says," I think you just go your wolf."
"But I don't hear it anymore. Shouldn't my wolf talk to me?"
"I'm not sure but we can ask the doctor tomorrow. You might be to tired tonight to hear her anymore. I will let you go to sleep my love. Good night."
He kisses me one more time then goes back to the pack house. I leave a note telling William I am back and went to bed. And I left his stuff on the table. Then I went to bed.