OUTLAW

Chapter 18

"Wow! A real live house." Austin smiles as he looks around the living room.

"A real live house?" Tim asks with a laugh.

"You know what I mean." Austin chuckles.

"It's hard to believe that we actually will be living here." Nate says with a huge grin as he tries out the couch.

"But there's a lot of cleaning that needs to be done before we move in." Adam says.

"For real." Austin smiles as he writes his name in the dust on the mantel.

"Well, we're off for the rest of the day so can we get started?" Rob asks. "And tomorrow is Sunday, we can get a lot done."

"But we're going to need some things from town." Tim says. "It's really too late to go today and everything will be closed tomorrow."

"But we can still clean, can't we?" Adam asks, giving his boyfriend a pleading look.

"There's a lot of brush that still needs clearing too." Chance adds.

After giving Austin and Nate a tour of the house, Tim rubs his hands together, "Well, let's get started."

"Where do we start?" Adam laughs as they all stand in the center of the living room looking around.

"I know where I'm going to start." Rob says as he walks toward the kitchen. "MY kitchen."

"If I can find a broom, I'm going to start knocking these cobwebs down." Tim says, looking up at the ceiling.

"I'll start cleaning our bedroom. You can't even see out of the windows." Adam says.

After searching the house for cleaning supplies, they find nothing.

"Well, ain't this a b*tch." Tim huffs. "I'm going to go see if Lilly has a broom and maybe some cleaning rags and a bucket we can use."

"I guess we need to add a broom to our shopping list." Adam smiles.

Tim leaves to walk over to Sam's while the others look around to see what they could get done.

The outlaw sees Lilly hanging up clothes on the clothesline.

"Well, hello, handsome." Lilly smiles. "How are the others liking the house?"

"They love it." Tim smiles. "We thought we would try and get some cleaning done but there's nothing to clean with."

"I got you covered." She says as she hangs up the last of her laundry.

Tim picks up the tub and follows her back to the house.

She begins to load him down with a couple of brooms, buckets, cleaning rags and anything else she thought they may need.

"Those old sheets covering the furniture aren't really any good so you can rip them up for rags if you need them." Lilly says.

Tim nods as he tries to balance everything that she had piled in his arms.

"You need the buckboard, son?" Sam laughs.

"Naw, I think I got this." Tim chuckles as he almost drops one of the buckets.

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"You rest. I'm going to check on the boys." Lilly says as she kisses her husband's cheek.

It had been about an hour since Tim had left with the cleaning supplies. She was curious about just how much cleaning six single outlaws could do.

As she walks up on the porch, she hears Tim having a sneezing fit in the living room. He was attempting to knock down all the cobwebs but the dust was winning.