Alright first things first I really hope that anyone reading this you will have to bare with me because this story starts in the real world before the out break. I want to set up some relationships before the world goes to shit. This chapter i hope reveals how feisty Jenna is and how she is strong but her strength will weaver but then be rebuilt.

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" Mama, you don't understand I hate…" Jenna argued with her mother.

" Hush!" Her mother yelled. " You will continue with your lessons until I or your father.."

" Step father." Jenna added.

" Until we say otherwise. Look honey you know how it is with this lifestyle you have to be smart and talented." Her mother played with her hair in front of a mirror.

Jenna and her family had always had money and were well off but when her father died all the money went to her but she could not use it until she turned 21. So her mother not wanting to live among the 'poorer' people married very rich and enjoyed all she had. Jenna's step father was owner of the biggest company in Atlanta and when the business spread to around the world he became even richer. He made millions in sales every month. It was ridiculous how much money this man had.

The money he had been ridiculous but not even close to how ridiculous their house was. IT was a mansion in the middle of the Georgia woods. Easy access to anywhere in the city and out of the city. At least three stories. It is hard to explain what this house looks like because it is so detailed that no room is the same. Their master bedroom was the size of a normal house. The bathrooms were the size of a small house and it goes on. Jenna and her mother moved into this house two years ago and Jenna still gets lost. Her mother, June says she truly loves this rich man but Jenna knows she loves the money.

His name is Ron, he is a tad bit older than her mother and has three kids. A 18-year-old son name Alan, a 16-year-old daughter named Ashley, and a baby girl named Beth. Jenna was an only child before her baby sister was born. She always felt like Jenna should protect Beth from becoming like Ashley. Jenna wanted Beth's life to be care free and happy and not always asking and getting what she demads. Jenna could already tell how her life would turn out living in this house. She knew she would be the odd one out. She never did like wearing fancy clothes or sitting at tea parties. She would rather wear jeans and running shoes and walk through the woods. Jenna likes to be different from her mother and siblings. She had never seen her self as pretty because she had a scar that lead from her right eye down to her neck. It was jagged but she didn't mind. To others she was pretty but Jenna never gave it much thought.

Ashley is a typical rich spoiled seventeen year old. She loves to poke fun at Jenna about anything and even as middle school went by she made Jenna's life hard. Alan on the other hand was a good guy. He has always been protective of anyone younger than him and when Jenna came into the picture he knew his sister would torture her and he should protect her. Jenna and Alan were close and with in the two years they knew each other they knew everything about one another and would tell each other everything. Of coarse Alan loved his real sister but they never got along like him and Jenna.

Ron was a nice man and would buy the kids what ever they needed. Jenna never asked for anything but he bought her clothes she would never wear and shoes she couldn't walk in. He said it was because one day she would grow out of this phase and want to be mature.

Her mother on the other had forced these things on Jenna. June would push, ballet lessons, gymnastics, acting, social skills, and even singing lessons. Jenna hated most of these lessons. She loved to sing though. On days that she couldn't take her mother's endless nagging she would sit on her lawn and write her own songs. She had written Beth her own lullaby that she sung just about every night. She was very good at what she hid from everyone but Beth. Jenna hated sharing.

Jenna was 17 when things started to change around this house. Jenna was going to be a senior along with Ashley. Jenna had become moot to Ashley. Jenna saw no need to speck to the girl or see that she even existed. Ashley would pass in the halls she would utter a rude comment and Jenna would shout back a nasty comment and shut her up.


The first two years of high school went by with in a blink of an eye for Jenna and she hated every bit of it. Being a loner and so emerged in her studies she never had time for friends and no one around that school ever made the effort to be her friends or even acknowledged that she even existed. So Jenna kept to her self and was always top of every class.

It was the second week and Jenna was at her locker trying to get her things from her locker to go home when she heard a group of girl whispering across the hall. She looked over and every signal one of them had red-faced and wide eyes as they stared at a boy. Jenna rolled her eyes at them and continued what she was doing. That's when she heard Ashley's voice.

" So you got a name?" She spoke and Jenna rolled her eyes.

" Not one you should know." The boy's voice said harshly. He had a low voice with a regular southern accent. Jenna smiled to her self knowing Ashley didn't like being talk to like that.

" Well mine's Ashley." Jenna rolled her eyes again as she tied her shoe lace. She started to walk toward them to go home but when the boy spoke again it set Ashley off.

" Do you mind? You're in the way." He said and Jenna stopped to listen.

" Well I'm sorry but I'm just trying to get to know you." She said as Jenna watched Ashley's hand stroke the boy's arm.

" Don't touch me." he said throwing her hand away.

Jenna walked faster toward the two. That poor boy. " how rude!" Ashley said.

" Jesus Ashley leave the poor guy alone." Jenna spoke up as she walked closer. Ashley narrowed her eyes.

" Shut up freak." Ashley spat back.

" Wow, not your best choice of words but you tried." Jenna said in a sarcastic and pitied voice. The boy smile but then looked away when Jenna looked at him. Jenna rolled her eyes at Ashley and began to walk away.

" yeah keep walking scar face!" Ashley yelled and a few gasps were exchanged from by-standers. Even in middle school when ever referenced Jenna's scar as an insult she lost it. Once in the sixth grade she bit a kid so hard he had to get stitches. The in the eighth grade she punched a girl so hard she knocked her out. Ashley's laugh started as Jenna started to turn around. Jenna straightened her back and walked over calmly to Ashley. She kept laughing until a hand caught her neck and was slammed against the lockers. The boy jumped back and stared at Jenna.

" Say that again I dare." Jenna said. Ashley shook her head. " didn't think so." She said and pushed Ashley back and she fell against the floor. Jenna turned around and just as she was about to leave Ashley yelled.

" I'm telling my dad"

" Go right ahead!" Jenna yelled back as she left the school.

When she got home her mother and step father were waiting in the dining room for her. When she walked in she saw their faces and knew Ashley had cried to them. She sighed as she looked at them and they looked back.

" She asked for it." Jenna defended her self and began to walk away.

" Jenna Alison Moore, get your butt back here!" Her mother yelled. She turned around and looked at her mother. " You will go up to Ashley's room and apologize." Her mother spoke.

Jenna laughed. " No. Mother she asked for it and deserved it! I'm not apologizing for the name she called me!" She yelled at her mother. " It's one thing to call me a freak or nerd but to call me scar face in front of half the school, I'm sorry that isn't ok!" Jenna yelled again. " You think Ashley is the innocent on in this well she isn't so no! I'm not apologizing."

Jenna stormed off and walked upstairs and could hear her mother yell her name but she went unanswered. Jenna walked into her room and changed into a pair of yoga pants and a sweater. She climbed out her window which lead to a ledge where she sat and looked at the sun slowly going down. She saw the forest in front other and she wanted to run away and not come back but she was pulled out of day dreaming by Ron and Alan's voice.

" We are all going out. Could you watch over Beth?" Ron asked.

Jenna climbed down and looked at them. " Yeah of course. What are y'all doing?" She asked.

" Benefit." Ron said as he walked away.

The four of them left in the next two hours and then Jenna was alone. She assumed Beth was asleep so she sat on the roof staring into the abyss that was the Georgia forest line. She hummed to herself a soft tone and just thought about the chances she could have if she was any one else out there. Two hours she spent on the roof alone until a small cry woke her from the day dreams.


It was like Beth knew Jenna was watching over her because as soon she Jenna stepped in to the child's room Beth stopped crying and smiled up at her favorite person. Jenna smiled back at the little girl and when Beth reached up for her she couldn't resist picking her up. So she picked up the little bundle and looked at her sad little face and smiled.

" Just close your eyes, the sun is going down. You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light you and I'll be safe and sound." She sang sweetly to the baby and she quiet down. " Don't you dare look out your window, darling everything's on fire. The war outside our door keeps raging on." She sang. " Hold on to this lullaby. Even when the music's gone. Gone….Just close your eyes, the sun is going down. You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light you and I'll be safe and sound." She sang then stopped when Beth had closed her eyes. Jenna put the baby down and smiled at her.

Jenna wished she was a baby again. She loved having no idea what her life was going to be like or the people who were in it, but she knew that could never happen. So Jenna left the baby to her dreams and found her way to her bed as well and fell asleep.

The next day was no more exciting except when she was walking home from school she noticed someone following her. She looked back and it was that boy Ashley was flirting with but was put down by him. She smiled at him and he just looked back.

two years had gone by and finally Jenna was senior she was only a year and a half away from graduation. She and Ashley now stayed away from each other in school. Life was going good. She saw that newer boy around school but he seemed to be a loner and didn't talk much. She wondered if he was lonely. Should she talk to him? No he would rather being left alone.

Jenna had just come home from a long day and her mother was already yelling at her. " Jenna, did you go to your lessons today?" She asked. " Jenna you better get ready people will be arriving shortly."

" Yes I went to lessons, and why are people arriving?" she asked.

" We are having a little party. I told you this weeks ago!" Her mother said walking up the stairs and into Jenna's room as she was changing into jeans and running shoes.

" I'm not going." Jenna said. Her mother sighed. " Mother I will not go to a benefit where I'm forced to stand in a room with boring ass people and talk politics in a dress." She argued.

" Jenna watch your mouth." June snapped at her daughter. " and Jackson Taylor will be there." Her mother walked into Jenna's closet and pulled out a red knee-length dress and silver heels.

" Who?" She sighed.

" Jackson Taylor, you know him. Tall smart and very handsome." Her mother said laying her dress out.

" I have no idea who you are talking about and I'm not going." Jenna said.

" Jenna Alison Moore. You are coming and that is final." She said grabbing her daughter's arm and throwing her into the bathroom then starting the shower.

" Fine." Jenna gave up. " Don't know why I am I bother talking around here." He continued even though no one was listening.

" No one hears me anyway." She said into the mirror looking at her self and hating the sight so she got in the steaming shower and just let the water fall over her skin.