Last Alive?-Grethan

Chapter 41

Third POV

Searching around the house Grayson and Michelle spruced up the house a but, cleaning the dust off the surfaces and rearranging the furniture, storing the clothes and such in their separate rooms. The upstairs held three bedrooms, two small ones for the children and a slightly larger one, the master bedroom.

Ethan was off with an axe in hand, gun slung around his neck. Searching through the house finding a closet with tools and such for the wilderness Ethan grabbed the axe, off to collect some much needed firewood for their fireplace.

Staying close by Ethan chopped down the base of the short skinnier trees, swinging back and forth, the mist of his breathing flowing about, grey beanie sat upon his head, the wings of his hair poking out, cheeks reddened adorably as the cold air colored them beautifully.

Grayson and Michelle were moving furniture left and right, grabbing the brooms and sweeping about, ridding the floor of any crumbs and bits, dusting what they could, the accumulated dust being of plenty over the years, leaving their clothes in the backpacks in case they needed to leave unexpectedly.

Ethan held a couple logs of tree in his arms, axe in hand as he struggled to walk back to the cabin. The wood slipping from his grasp a couple times, sometimes the whole stack ending up on the floor, with a grunt of annoyance picking up the pieces and trudging his way back, making a mental note to bring Grayson along for some help next time, or even just a bag to carry everything in.

As Michelle held the dust pan in hand against the floor, Grayson gently brushing the grime of the floor into the pan gently, careful not to go to fast and have the dust fly up and onto his little helper

As Grayson finishes gathering up all the dust and what not onto the pan Michelle stands up, walking over to the kitchen where they've placed a new bag in the trash bin, opening the lid with a step of the foot, turning the pan sideways as all the trash fell in, tapping a couple times before placing it down next to the trash right side up, leaned against the wall, trapped between the two.

Walking back to Grayson to help with anything else she can the door opens, Ethan coming in with a couple cut up logs in his arms, dropping then as soon as Michelle comes running over, jumping into his arms

Ethan has taken a while, making multiple trips back and forth, a pile of wood outside the cabin that he made for future need, setting the axe besides it thinking it'd be better to be left outside.

Grayson came in, walking over to Ethan as he placed a kiss on his cheek, smiling at Michelle as she loosely wrapped her arms around Ethan.

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After setting up the fireplace, the fire being difficult to start but eventually succeeding. We snuggled up by the fire on the couch, same position as we woke up as in the morning. Talking about what we thought of the house, mostly about what Michelle did today

"Yeah, and Bryant fell and got a bruise on his knee, but then Harry kissed it and it was all better, Zayn was too scared to even touch him, asking them if he was ok over and over again" Michelle told, giggling towards the end at Zany's over the top worry on the incident

"And where are they now, Harry and Zayn?" Ethan asked as he saw that Michelle had Bryant in her hands

"They said they wanted to be alone, so I left them on the bed and turned the lights off" Michelle trailed off as she played with the nubs of Bryant's little arms

"Hehe... my boys gettin it" Ethan joked, leaning over to whisper the inappropriate statement to Grayson

"Ew" Grayson cringed, chuckling as he pushed on Ethan's shoulder

"What? What are they doing?" Michelle asked

"Nothing" Grayson said looking up at Ethan giving him a look as Ethan just shrugged with a breathy laugh "They're just having fun"

"I wanna have fun" Michelle stated

"Hah, c'mon lets go wake them up and have some other type of fun" Grayson said as Michelle bounced up on her feet running up the stairs with a grin spread wide

The pair got up as they trailed behind her, running up the stairs some as Grayson picked her up, screaming as she laughed, rushing into her room, dropping her down on the bed tickling her sides as Ethan soon joined in

Playing with the other family of three for the rest of the night until they fell asleep, all six sprawled out on the bed, faces smushed, Michelle snoring quietly as Grayson and Ethan just breathed out and in, a bundle of sleeping bodies, tired from the work and fun they've had throughout the day, ready for plenty more to come, just like this