Last Alive?-Grethan

Chapter 37

Grayson's POV

Opening my eyes in Ethan's hold, his firm grip on me is both comforting and protective. Gazing down to the floor the sun drapes across, a slight rainbow of light marked the ground with its natural beauty.

Hot breaths grazed the back of my neck as his hold tightens, scooting himself closer to me as he sighs out in relief, craning his neck up to kiss the back of my head as he stuffs his nose in my brown-golden hair, sniffing in as he relaxes his chest down on my back.

We stayed there in bed, in each other's hold in a comfortable silence as we enjoyed being together, we could finally just stop, not worry as much of having to hurry and run, hide and scavenge, we could stay put and just be us.

After a while of being in Ethan's grasp I checked my wrist to see it was 7:28, remembering we had to meet some people at the school I began to get up. Ethan's strong hold tightened as he groaned and pulled me further in to his chest.

"Ethan we have to go" I laughed out as I squirmed in his grasp, trying to get out and get dressed.

"We can stay a little longer, we still have time" Ethan pleaded

I turned around and pecked his lips as he relaxed with my touch, I pulled back and got out of bed as Ethan sighed with the loss of me in his arms.

I changed out of my clothes, only left in my underwear as I searched through my bag for some new clothes for the day. Ethan was laid flat on his stomach, face stuffed in the pillow, fully changed now I grabbed two granola bars, eating one as I sat beside Ethan, shoving him a bit as he turned to look at me.

"Here"

Taking the bar he ate it and sat up on the bed, finishing our small breakfast he got out of bed and got dressed while I stepped into the living room with my bag.

Unzipping the bag I pulled the family of three out and placed them down on the couch. Ethan stepped out fully dressed in black jeans, basic converse and a maroon T-shirt. I was clothed in normal dark denim jeans, vans and an olive green T-shirt.

Bag in hand Ethan tossed me a dark grey sweater, as he got out a red flannel for himself. Checking the time on my watch it was fifteen before eight so we decided to leave now.

Going down the stairs and out the front door we were greeted to people just like yesterday walking around, some were at small markets of different products, others with baskets of different assortments and all seemed to be going somewhere with a purpose.

After a seven minute walk we entered the school to see few children and teens walking around the halls. Turning we walked into the main office to see several people already settled at the rounded table.

"Good morning" they greeted as we responded with the same

"We usually do these kind of meetings in a group as we're usually the ones bringing people in." They stated as we nodded in understanding.

"So, since you two are still pretty young we want to know if the two of you would be interested in attending school? We have all the teachers from before and teach plenty of subjects, it starts from 7:20 and ends at 1:43, you'll have seven classes a day of fifty one minutes, lunch will be twenty five and then you go home.

You don't have to if you don't want to, it's more as a role for teachers to take part in and to keep children occupied and kept up with their academics, they're only taught the basics, enough to function in life, none of the extra subjects that aren't needed, we don't want to waste any time with the current situation in the world"

"Yes I think we would be better off doing something else, I think we've had enough education to move on"

"Well is there anything you two could think of to be apart of, there's cooking, gardening, guarding, going outside and scavenging as you two witnessed when you found us"

I stared off at Ethan to see what he thought, we stared at one another for some time in contemplation, we survived this long on our own, maybe going out could help, or guarding at the very least

Ethan leans in whispering "I want you to do gardening or cooking or something..."

"Why, I was thinking we could both go out or guard"

"I just want you to be safe, I want you to be ok"

"Ethan I was ok on my own before I was with you, I think I can handle it being with a group of people, or on the walls keeping guard, whatever you want I'll go with you"

Ethan hesitates before giving a short nod and turning back "We want to go out and scavenge with all of you, we were ok on our own and we know we can manage out there with all of you"