Introduction:
The day began like any other day. Wake up. Eat breakfast. Take a shower. Get dressed. Go to school. But today was different, it was my birthday. My parents always let me and my brother stay home on our birthday. You might ask "What happened?", but the truth is nobody really knows, it just happened. Everybody has their own opinion about how it started. Some think it was a biological attack from another country. Other think it was introduced to the general public by our government to reduce the population and it just got out of control. Some people even think it flew in on a meteor and crashed into a mountain somewhere. As for me, I don't really know how it started, all I can do is tell you what I know, and what I've been through.
No one ever expected the world to end, but it did. It was a surprise to everyone. It was so sudden, in the middle of the day, we didn't have any time to prepare. You like to think that your ready for the end, but ... no one is prepared for all the death and distraction. No matter how prepared you are you won't actually be ready. The truth is you will probably be dead within a year. Some people will resort to cannibism. The ones who don't will be forced to kill to stay alive. It's not a place for any child to grow up. I should know, I grew up in this world, and I am haunted by the things that I've done. I was forced to grow up way earlier then I should have, and because of that ... lets just say it's changed me.
I was ten years old when all of this began. I don't really remember a lot from before this happened, I think maybe because I was so young. I do remember some of the things that my dad did before the end. He was always obsessed with preparing for the end of the world, we had seven years worth of food, water, medical, and gardening supplies stored in a secret room in our basement. He taught me and my brother how to fight, how to shoot a gun and firstaid.
Everybody thought that my family was crazy. Little did they know, all these skills would actually pay off. To be honest with you I thought that all this preparation that my dad was doing was pointless. In the end we were the only ones who were prepared. I wish that I had told my friends because if I had then they would probably still be here.