Surviving
Chapter One
My dad turned eighty last week. My brother's and I cashed in a lot of favors to get as many family and friends up to my lodge for the big day. Weeks of planning and hiding things from him so it would be a surprise wrecked havoc on my nerves along with the whole families. We were all up here the day it happened. Forty one people for a three day week end. I had a bunk house built for the older kids and small dry cabins for families and couples. It was a lot of hard work but it was a labor of love. My family hadn't been up to the lodge since the remodel and we were all excited to spend three stress free days together.
The week before the party I came up to the lodge with my contractor. There is only one way up to Lake Jen, an old logging road that had been in disrepair until the construction earlier in the spring. Surrounded on three sides by mountains Lake Jen was the perfect place to get away from it all and when Aaron lost the lodge on Lake Jennifer he vowed the house on Lake Jen would survive anything. If it hadn't been for a water leak in the attic over the winter it would have.
"I'm not going to take down the security fence till next month when we get the fire tower up." He unlocked the gate for me.
"I wanted it down for the party."
"I know Jess, but this is the safest way to go." I shook my head and reluctantly agreed with him. I also stock piled my pantry, freezer and arsenal because I am my father's daughter. I brought up extra generators and gasoline for the long week end. The cabins were beautiful and the lodge was a masterpiece. It was a great investment when Jen decided after the leak and cave in that the lodge was better off owned by someone more local.
My dad was surprised to say the least. He thought that he and my mom were just coming up to see what I had done to the place since they had last been up there. He got a little suspicious when I blindfolded both of them because I wanted it to be a surprise but how else was I going to explain a dozen cars in the driveway. He was very surprised. Three days later, so were we. They said the end of the world as we knew was coming. Who knew it was going to be May sixteenth, two thousand fifteen. And who would of thought the one thing that saved my family was a fence my contractor was too lazy to remove before my father's party.