Beyond a Brotherly Bond | Grethan

Chapter 7

Author's Note: Happy Tuesday lovelies! Okay, I'll admit, this is a bit of a filler chapter, but only the first half! I wanted to include a bit of their lifestyle and a few humorous scenarios of Ethan with his uncomfortable cast.

Regardless, I tried making this chapter as entertaining as possible. Enjoy!—————————————————
*Ethan's POV*

Attempting the most mundane activities has become increasingly difficult with my new cast. It has only been about 12 hours since I've had it, and I already want to rip it off.

Walking around takes an eternity; I feel like I'm dragging a cinder block. I have plenty of pairs of crutches from all my previous injuries, but they're back at home. I wish I had received crutches, but Joanne said they wouldn't be necessary. I beg to differ.

My morning shower turned into a one-man circus act. I had to prop my leg outside of the shower so that it wouldn't get wet. I looked like one of those monkeys trying to juggle while balancing themselves on a unicycle.

Luckily I can stay in bed for most of the day and rest. I regret being so harsh to Grayson yesterday; I know how sensitive he is. He's been acting like mom all day. He cleaned both of our rooms, made breakfast, finished editing tomorrow's new video, and checks up on me every 10 minutes.

A hear a knock on my door, quickly followed by Grayson poking his head into my room. "Hey Ethan, I already saved the video file; so tomorrow's video is good to go. Now we just have to plan what we're gonna do for next week's video," he walks over to my bed with his laptop and sits on the corner, avoiding my zombie foot.

A large portion of our channel consists of me and Grayson doing absurd challenges that almost always require physical activity. Sit-down videos where we talk to the camera aren't typically things we like to do, unless we're addressing serious topics or huge announcements.

After a little while of bouncing ideas off of each other, I couldn't stop thinking about my one-man circus act I had in the shower this morning. What if Grayson was a circus monkey that I dared to do ridiculous things while I laid back and laughed at him because of my injury? I think that would be an entertaining idea for a video.

"Hey Gray," he looks up from his laptop, "what if we did a video where I dared you to do a bunch of crazy things?" His expression immediately dropped.

"Woah woah, wait... you sit back and dare me to do embarrassing things and I just do them?" He drops his head into his hands. "Okay, I have to admit... it sucks for me, but that's a good idea."

"Exactly!" I'm glad he's on board with the idea; my head was starting to hurt from thinking. "We could even name it something like 'Ethan dares Grayson'," I add.

"Okay, but on one condition..." Grayson starts, "in the future, we have to make a 'Grayson dares Ethan' video."

"Okay, deal!" I respond excitedly. A rush of relief comes over me. We take our weekly videos extremely seriously; we're aware that our videos make our fans happy. There are people that are going through horrible circumstances, and our videos have the ability to make them forget all of their problems — even if it's just for 10 minutes. That's why we do what we do.

"Ugh, that was a lot of thinking. I think I'm gonna take a nap," I say. Unfortunately, I can't turn to my side or lay on my stomach like I usually do, because my foot has to remain straight and elevated.

"Alright, call me if you need anything," Grayson responds, grabbing his laptop and getting up from my bed. He slowly closes the door behind him; I hear his footsteps trail off into the living room.