Guy opened his eyes. Darkness. He was dead. He put his hand up and felt his chest, he was breathing.
He reached to his waist and felt fur. "Belt?" Guy asked and his companion answered with low growl, he was tired and Guy woke him up. Belt slowly dragged himself away from Guy and continued to sleep.
Guy's whole body hurt, while sitting up he felt how his chest hurt. He looked around.
Necklace on neck, belt next to him, knife on his waist and dark sky turning into sunrise.
Despite his painful body he stood up and walked away from, fur bed? Where was he? He went to fireplace. On other side of beach he saw Grug, Gran, Sandy, Thunk and Ugga in sleep pile. A little bit away from them on fur bed was laying his beautiful tigress, Eep. Croods and Belt are alive.
It was just a nightmare. He sat before fireplace, where fire was long ago burning. And started crying. He didn't like to cry, and even more when living with Croods. He didn't want to show them how weak he is. He turned to look at the big water, sea as Eep and he called it. He was in tomorrow. They were in tomorrow. He and his family. They are safe.
"Are you alright?"
Guy jumped a little as somone behind him spoke.
"Yes, just ... just a nightmare."
Eep sat next to him. He didn't even notice when she got up. She moved so silently, like a true huntress. Eep knew what nightmare meant, Guy explained it to her when she had one about her dad dying at the End.
"Are you crying?" Eep asked in soft voice. She always knew when something was wrong with him.
"No."
"You are really good at lying ..." Eep answered annoyed and sat next to him.
"Why aren't you sleeping? It's early." Guy looked at her with smile.
"Well, I saw you here alone and when I noticed you are crying. How could I sleep?"
Guy's heart pounded a little faster, it felt so good to have someone who cares about him.
"Thank you." Guy said and hestitantly wrapped arm around her back.
"For what? You brought us here. I should be one thanking you."
"No, I mean. I wouldn't make it here without you and your family. Maybe you'll think I'm crazy but ... I think I saw in my dream what would happen If I left you in coral field."
Eep understood. "So, what happened? If you want to talk about it, if not then ..."
"First I ran back to find you, then I noticed you all were waiting for me in rain. Then I found footprints ane they lead to the End. Basically you and your family died in End. In sorrow I cried, killed Belt and jumped into the lava. Everyone died." Guy fastly explained, not wanting to cry again, not before Eep.
"Why did you kill yourself?"
"I realized that I would die, cause End was so close and I couldn't live alone again. I couldn't live without you" Guy embarassed and horrified blushed. "And ... and without your family too of course. I love them too."
"Guy? Are you really feeling better?"
Guy nodded and Eep smiled mischievously.
"Dad is still sleeping. Want to go for a walk?"
"Without telling him? Won't he kill me?!"
"As I said before, I won't let him. And he likes you, he wouldn't kill you. Maybe scare you a little with throwing rocks and little chase, but that's all." Eep stood and reached hand out toward Guy.
"For spending time with you, every little chase from your dad is worth it." Guy took her hand and soon they were in the cold water.
It was fun splashing water at each other, they felt like kids. Until kids game changed into hugging and kiss.
Being so close to Eep, his body warm from her even in cold water and feeling her breath on his face. It was one of the best things he found out about, kiss.
They parted and Guy with crooked smile whispered " For this moment, everything that happened was totally worth it."
"I love you, but sometimes you talk too much." She whispered back and kissed him again, while he slowly moved his arms a little under her waist.
Guy knew that he made a good choice when he didn't left croods.
He was enjoing their little secret moment in water until ...
"Eep!" Grug's voice echoed probably through the whole tomorrow.
Guy and Eep both looked behind them at the beach. There he was, Grug standing with fury in his eyes on the edge of water. He saw everything. Guy as fastly as he could removed his hands from Eep.
Grug was already making his way through water to them. He was big man, but faster than he looked like.
"Guy!" Grug yelled his name. He sure was in trouble. For him it was just a fun time in water and little bit of more "fun" on top of it. But Grug saw it as a Boy touching and kissing his little girl. And he did what cavemen fathers do, scare that dangerous boy away. He liked Guy but too much, was too much.
Guy smiled when Grug was few meters away from them. Maybe he shouldn't have held her like that. Guy turned to Eep.
"You know, it was still worth it." And he ran through waves to the beach with Grug behind his back.
He ran around sleeping Ugga, Gran, Sandy and Thunk. Grug was close behind him, growling.
Ugga smiled and yelled after them "Good Morning."
Soon Grug and Guy yelled "Good morning" back.
Gran stirred and laughed. "Again?"
Ugga nodded with smile.
Gran laughed even more "He won't left the poor boy alone."
Guy turned his head and looked back at Grug still running right behind him. He got used to it by now. That was the reason he was so careful when being around Eep. Grug was always watching them. But he didn't complain. It was his family, and he wouldn't change a thing.
He made a good choice.
Thank you for reading this story. At first I wanted to leave it where basically everone dies, but then I thought "Hey so many bad things happened, what if it's all just a nightmare for Guy?" And second chapter existed. Yea it was a little fluff. I thought about writing new chapters and made this into a little series of how Guy and Croods are living in tomorrow. But it's up to you. I'll be very happy for your rewievs, and tell me. Should I continue?
Thank you for reading ...
