Choose Your Own Adventure Story - Zombie Apocalypse

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You come back from a walk with a basket filled with various trinkets from the woods, including flowers, pinecones, cool twigs, colorful rocks, tiny pebbles, bendy vines, tree bark, feathers, a variety of leaves, bright berries, and sap inside a bowl that Levi carved.

"As requested." You place the basket in front of Levi. "What are we doing with it?"

He looks inside, and smiles at the contents. "What about the moss?" He questions.

"I gathered one of everything in the forest," you throw your arms in the air in defeat. "Make do with what you've got."

"I'm kidding, thanks for getting all this." He responds. "I finished the base."

The "base" is a complete rocking chair, the perfect size for a child Rose's age.

"Wow," you gasp, "how did you..?" You trail off, unable to complete your sentence.

Levi smiles. Having not shaved since he arrived he sports the beginning of a long beard, that you think suits him very well. Especially when he smiles.

"I used to make them back home. Usually I have more tools than this, so it took me a bit longer." He wipes the sweat from his brow before looking at you. "Now we get to decorate it."

Firstly, you crush the berries you gathered into designs on the rocking chair. Levi has already shaved the bark off of the sticks, so the dye holds fairly well. The vines are used to wrap around the rocking chair, reenforcing the places where the sticks meet. Levi chips away the wood in small portions, places sap inside, and sticks the colored rocks on top of it. By the time you two are finished, you're sweaty, dirty, and laughing.

"I'm sure Rose will love it, Levi." You smile sincerely at him.

"Hope so," he lifts up the rocking chair with one arm. "Let's go show her."

He lifts you up with his other arm, but you're laughing too hard to care. He takes you back to the cabin, and sets you down in front of the door. You both walk upstairs, to see Rose sitting on the floor, playing with previously carved wooden toys.

"Hey Rose," Levi slowly walks up to her white the rocking chair hidden behind his back. "We have something for you."

He reveals the rocking chair, and sets it down in front of her. Her eyes light up, and she looks up at Levi, as if asking him if she can sit on it. He nods at her, she smiles, and immediately climbs onto it. She rocks on it for a little bit, before turning around to admire the decorations. She smiles at both of you.

"Thank you." She whispers.

You and Levi look at each other in joyful shock, before telling her she's welcome. The entire interaction really warms your heart, and makes you fall for Levi a little bit more.

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