Grumbo (Grian x Mumbo) Fanfic

Ch 19

{HermitWorld}

Grian still hadn't been sleeping well. And the structures continues to appear with no explanation or anyone admitting to having built them.

Everyone was extremely confused.

Mumbo just wanted to help Grian sleep better.

Grian was often barely awake for regular meetings, near fell asleep during any meal of the day quite frequently, and had dark circles under his eyes showing his extreme lack of sleep. And yet, despite how tired he was, he could never sleep good enough.

He knew Elise was the cause of this. When he woke up some mornings, Grian would remember the dreams, or rather nightmares, he'd had about what happened with Elise. He remembered every detail of what she used to do to him, and how she nearly got away with it.

He remembered how awful she was to everyone.

And he had nightmares about what could happen in the future.

Grian remembered one night particularly, every detail in the nightmare.

{In the dream}

Grian woke up, actually having had a decent sleep for once. He woke up next to his love, who greeted him with a warm smile.

"Good morning, Gri~ how'd you sleep?" Mumbo kissed the smaller man's forehead.

"I actually slept wonderfully!" Grian squeaked. He was quite happy.

"That's great! What do you want for breakfast?"

"Whatever is fine, doesn't matter to me!"

"Alright, well... How about I take you out this morning?"

"Really? I would love that!"

The two of them got up and out of bed, quickly dressing to head out the door. Grian still just couldn't believe how lucky he'd gotten to have such an amazing boyfriend.

Mumbo took Grian's hand, intertwining their fingers together, and they walked to Bdubs cafe.

They walked in, and Bdubs greeted the two with a frown.

"I'm sorry, boys, you're not allowed here. It's against out rules."

"What? Since when?" Grian gave Bdubs a confused look.

"Since Elise bought out my shop. You two aren't allowed around anywhere, she's taken over most shops and banned you two. The only thing she hasn't gotten to yet is the mayor's spot."

Mumbo and Grian looked at each other.

"We still have our shops, she can't buy those from us..." Mumbo whispered.

"Well, bye then Bdubs..." Grian waved, and the two walked out the door.

"How could they let her buy them all out? I thought they were smarter than that! She just wants control and power..."

"Hey, it's okay, Gri. Like I said, we have our shops and she could never take those away from us."

Suddenly, the two heard rockets from above, followed by a perfect landing made by the one and only Elise.

"Oh, well, good morning boys! Didn't expect to see you here."

"What do you want?!"

"Oh, I'm guessing you just found out that you're banned around here." Elise gave an awfully evil smirk, chuckling to herself.

To her delight, she laughed alone.

"Yeah, well, we don't really care. So long as you don't have us you have only control over the others and their shops. It doesn't matter." Grian had a bad habit of causing trouble between him and Elise. It was never on purpose, but it's happened often.