Chapter 7
Sam flicked her wrist to launch the hook and worm into the stream. Jake gave her an approving nod as he did the same near her.
She had made him bait her hook since she couldn't bear to put the wiggly worm onto it. Sam had hit him when she heard him mumble something about girls. Jake had just given her a lopsided grin.
She was enjoying herself so far. The guys were respectful when she had to use her bathroom area, just as she tried not to look if any of them wandered near their area. Of course, she was finding out pretty quickly that guys had it much easier for that sort of thing than girls did. She wouldn't say she was envious, but she did wish all she had to do was unzip her jeans instead of what she had to do.
Suddenly she felt the fish on the end of her line and she pulled it onshore, shouting at Jake to get it off the hook. She hit him in the face with the fish as she tried to keep out of its way.
Jake snorted as he grabbed the fishing line to keep her from hitting him with the fish again. Skillfully, he took off the fish and tossed it further on shore where it wouldn't wiggle back into the water. Sam couldn't look. She felt bad for the fish, but she knew they all had to eat too.
"Good goin', Brat," Jake told her, rebaiting her hook.
"You two having a contest?" Adam asked as he wandered over.
"I'm winning," Sam said.
"I believe, I'm winning," Jake contradicted her.
"You two sound like an old married couple," Adam joked. He noticed the looks that Sam and Jake gave each other. Adam bit back a grin. He and Kit still thought the two of them would end up together and had written it down and put it in an envelope in Adam's closet to be opened in eleven years.
"What are they arguing about?" Kit asked back at the fire.
"Who has to diaper the kids," Adam laughed. Kit laughed with him. "I told them they sound like an old married couple."
"Who has to diaper Jakey?" Quinn joked.
"Thank goodness he was potty trained last year," Nate put in with a laugh.
"Wonder if Sammy would have changed him," Bryan said.
"Has she ever seen…?" Kit wondered.
"Not unless the two of them have been skinny dipping and we don't know about it," Nate responded.
The five guys looked over to where the two younger kids were still fishing.
"Nah," Adam shook his head.
"Well, let's not scare her," Kit told them. "Try and remember she's just eight and doesn't have siblings. If you go swimming, strip at the edge of the lake and go right in."
The other four nodded, understanding.
"Maybe we can have her turn around until we're all in," Adam suggested.
"That's an idea," Kit agreed. "Of course, that doesn't help in her situation. I doubt she wants to swim naked with the six of us."
"Jake mentioned underwear," Bryan said.
"Maybe Jakey would donate one of his t-shirts," Quinn suggested.
"That's a good idea," Kit nodded. "Not that she has anything to look at, at eight years old, but I'd hate to have to deal with Wyatt if he found out we swam naked with his naked daughter."
All five guys shuddered.