Oh god Dean, everything's falling apart. We left for DIA but the bus got stolen. Then people attacked us and Niko tried to make the people leave us all alone but they took his mask, and he blistered up. Josie went to help by giving Niko her mask, but she was O. Dean, Josie is type O. She killed Niko... Josie killed Niko and I keep telling myself that it isn't true but it is. It gets much worse though. Max tried to go to Josie because he was scared, and Josie took his mask. Max already had a lot of blisters on his feet that had popped and Josie got him pinned. Dean, Josie literally ripped Max apart. Oh god, it was horrible. Then, when we finally got a mask back on Josie and the compounds had worn off she killed herself. They left us with no Niko, no Josie, and no Max. Sahalia tried to shield the kids but Ulysses got in the way. In the whole thing he broke his leg, and it's getting infected. Everybody is scared we're going to die, and honestly I think we will. No one feels like eating anything and we all worry about Ulysses. Batiste was next to Max when he... when he died and he's going into trauma. I guess I should explain Brayden...he's the one who took the bus. We all knew he couldn't drive, but while everyone was outside moving a car that was in the way he told the few kids that had stayed in the car to help us. After we had moved the car he started the engine and just drove off. He didn't even give us food, or water, or even a band-aid. He was always a jerk, but I never thought he'd just let us die like that.
Pretty soon Ulysses had to stop so we went to a hotel that was just off the highway. When we looked at Ulysses' leg, it was super swollen and looked so bad the kids had to go in another room. Sahalia and I tried as best we could to help him, but Ulysses died when the infection reached its apex. We put him in another room so the kids wouldn't see him, but we couldn't get the stains out of the sheets he had been on.
Batiste, Sahalia, you, Astrid, Henry, Caroline, Chloe, and me. Out of the original 14 of us, and the 9 that went to help Brayden, only 3 survived the hotel. I think after Ulysses died we all lost the will to do anything and forgot about what our goal was. Batiste was so distressed he ran away. Then it was just me and Sahalia. I've always dreamed of having Sahalia be with me and want me, but not like this. Not when our families were dead.
During the night Sahalia wrote me a note in the form of a song before she climbed to the roof and jumped. Then it was just me, and Dean, if you ever read this, and if you find our parents tell them I loved them. Tell them I missed them so much and I wished so much for them to be with us and even thought we were all scared, we did have family there. Tell them that I, Alex Grieder, wanted them to have the best life available. And now Dean, now I jump. It's just me now and I'm going to die soon. I'll go to the roof and jump, and I apologize. I'm sorry I'm not brave enough to stay. I'm sorry I left that Greenway in Monument. I'm sorry I didn't send help. I hope you and Astrid and the twins and Chloe make it. I'm sorry I couldn't say this to your face, but Dean... I love you. I was such a brat, and I love you. Now, as my life is about to come to a close I only wish the best for you. I love you Dean Grieder.
