I sat by the table waiting for my friends as I took a sip from my coffee, I remember it as it was yesterday. I was sitting outside of our towns most famous cafeteria, that table was always reserved for us, it was our place. I hadn't seen my friends for a week because I was in Milan for my fashion show. I was a designer before all this shit show. Living my best life. Traveling all around the world. Wow! I really miss my old life.
"Heeeyyy" I heard from the distance, it was Carry my best friend since fifth grade, with Ron, her boyfriend and Reese behind them locking his car as he was waving at me. I was really happy to see them. I stood up and hugged them tight. They then sat down with me. Usually we would start with the small talk, but as we sat down Carry straight away asked me if anything strange happened as I was in Milan. "Well I'm doing good, thank you for asking how are you tough?" I chuckled taking a sip. They didn't laugh along with me witch was really strange for them. "Was something supposed to happen?" I asked "Didn't ya hear? There is some virus going around all over the world and it kills you, but after you die you come back but not the same tough, kind of like a zombie. Dead yet alive?" Ron answered my question and I burst into laughter. " It's true I saw it, well on tv but it was real, our town is one of the only ones that hasn't been affected yet, because of the low population and the size of it." I looked all of them as they were crazy and started to say "Do they really believe that crap?" but I before I could say something I heard a scream and a crash. That's when I first saw them. The walkers.
Survival and my loved ones were the first things that crossed my mind. We acted fast and didn't go to look at the situation. We hopped in Reese's car and drove off. We didn't say anything for minutes but then I screamed out loud "What THE actual FUCK just happened?!" Reese looked at me and said "Told you we ain't lying. It's the end of the freakin' world."
The phone lines were down so I couldn´t call my parents they weren´t living in the same town as me either. I already accepted that I was never going to see them again. We went to all of our houses to get our stuff. My house was the last. We decided that we will spend the night there. Others went to the gas station and the store, I stayed in the house packing things up. All the usual stuff. It was decided that we will head for Atlanta in the morning.
In the morning when we stepped outside the whole town was wiped out, couple of walkers wandering around. As the others were putting our stuff into our jeep I just stared at the walkers. Not understanding how did it change all so quiqly. My career just started to rise up. But it didn´t matter anymore, cause the world changed and I needed to change with it. So I took my knife from my poket and started to walk towards the walker, he noticed me and started to come towards me. I built up all the anger inside me and stabbed it hard in the head. It´s eyes went up as the knife reached it´s brain. And then it hit me that I knew this person before. He was my neighbor. Then I got even more angrier and stabbed the other walkers in the head. I screamed in anger. Then I heard Reese calling me to run for the car, I didn´t listen him first but then I ran.
"What the hell is wrong with you?! Are you crazy you could have been bit!" Carry yelled at me. "No! You´re the one that´s crazy! This is how it is now!" I snapped at her. "There is a cure it`s gonna be all the same again this is just for the moment, there is a refugee camp at Atlanta and we are gonna get there and it´s gonna be alright!" She snapped back "How can you be so sure that the camp isn`t run over just like our town!" "Just stop already! Alright? Now we are gonna get to Atlanta only if we don´t fight and stick toghether!" Ron yelled. We were quiet for a while but then Reese asked me "How the hell did you even know to go for the head, you didn´t see the warning on the TV right?" "Yeah but I was a geek and read comic books, so I took it from there and went for it."
We stopped at the police station to get some guns and weapons. I was suprised that Carry agreed to it. It was locked, so we broke the door window and went inside, I was the first one then Carry,Ron and Reese. I hold my knife up being focused on everything around me I killed a couple of walkers around me and Reese and Ron too. Carry was actually tougher than me before but now I kind of stepped up, changed. I was suprised that i got used to this so quiqly but it was I did. We finally found a room full of guns, we took them all. The room next to it had a lot of weapons in it like matcheties, knives, swords, also guns and granades. we took them all too. We had four big bags full of weapons. We decided we will share them later. We decided we will take another car, so we can get more stuff like food,water weapons. Reese started to start the car whithout the keys I stood by and learned, so I could do it myself next time. We got it running and started to move. I got in the car with Reese and Ron with Carry.
"So what do you think?" I asked Reese "About what?2 He asked. "This." He was silent for a while and then said "I think that you were right about what you said to Carry in the car, but I do hope that there is a safe place in Atlanta. "Yeah, me too." I said unsure.
We decided to spend the night in a small cabin beside the road. We layed down all the weapons in front of us. We all got a hand gun, mine was small but practical, we all took at least one good knife too. I took the most of them, put two in my boots, one into my pocket, and three on my belt. I also took a bow as my main weapon, thank god that I wanted to be like Katniss Everdeen as a child and made my parents to put me to an bow shooting class. Carrys man weapon was basically throving small knives, she was real good at it and I made her teach me later. Ron´s main weapon was a big gun I don´t know what they call it but it was big and it had a silencer. Reese´s weapon was a big sharp matchetie.
We stayed two more nights at the cabin, to really learn how to fight. Before we could leave we crossed paths with another group who was also headed to Atlanta, it was a dead end. So we tried to get to the CDC, but when we got there all was left was dust. We stayed with the group for six or seven months but they didn´t make it. We each learned different skillls from them. I learned how to track and skin animals and also did Ron. Carry learned how to craft things out of wood. and Reese also learned to skin animals but also how to handle the matchetie properly. We went to group to group always losing the group but making it out still alive. We made it out becaus we could handle the fear, but never anyone who we met on the road could handle it as we did.
For two years we travelled around, group to group. But then, we didn`t see anyone alive after that, we thought we were the last ones who were alive. For four years we were alone, but at least we had each other by our side.