Day 16, Saturday, October 2010
Dear Journal,
I lost my journal… actually I didn't lose it, I had to leave it behind at my grandparent's. So now I'm writing my personal thoughts and feelings in this notebook that my new friend was able to find for me. I'll get to my new friend in a bit, but I need to recap everything that has happened to me these past few days. I honestly don't want to though, I don't even feel like writing at all right now at the moment, but there's nothing else for me to do at this new place I'm currently at. So here goes… the last night I was at my grandparent's, a group of bad people came into the neighborhood and killed a lot of people. They then came into my grandparent's house, so my mom took me and hid me under the sink, in the bathroom. I heard my mom scream, but then everything was quiet. I was hiding in the bathroom for a few minutes, I think until DJ came in and found me. After he found me, he told me to close my eyes, as we were about to walk out of the house… so that I wouldn't see my mom's dead body… or my grandparent's bodies. It was so horrible, because I did!
DJ and I were able to get away, and found a safe place to be at for the night. DJ finally explained to me everything… everything messed up that has been going on in the world… and it's really crazy, I still can't process it. He told me that people are coming back from the dead, but not in their usual self. They come back more aggressive and scary, and… they also eat the living. I don't understand how the hell something like this is even happening! The world is ending because dead people are coming back as cannibals! That's something no one ever thought in their wildest dreams would happen! Anyway, DJ also told me that just one bite from a dead person, means it's all over and that people will turn into one of those things no matter how they die, like a car accident for example. That explains why there's so many of them, dead people walking around I mean. The only way to take out the dead is to shoot, stab, or smash their brain. We also have to worry about the living as well. With the world ending and all, people are gonna go insane and do anything they can to survive, even bad things, like killing innocent people! Like what those bad people did to my mom and grandparents!
The morning after me and DJ had to escape, we walked all day to go find these people that DJ met, while he was on his way to our grandparent's house a couple weeks ago. The people he met told him they were going up to a cabin, where they had neighbors who have a treehouse, and a compound where we can be safe at. I thought that sounded too good to be true, but I wanna believe so bad that we can make it there, to the compound. On our way to the cabin with the treehouse, we sort of got lost at one point, but I realized we kept passing the same damn tree. I helped DJ with heading into the right direction and we actually made it to the cabin place, late at night, but we wanted to wait til morning to find the people, so we slept in an abandoned cabin. What's kind of funny and embarrassing about that is the fact that before DJ and I adventured toward the cabin, I had this little… well I guess big meltdown that there was no way in hell I can survive this new world. I still feel like I can't, but I was really lucky that one time so far, that I was able to contribute and not be useless. We even had to hide from the dead in the bushes a couple times, and… the way the dead people sound, is seriously creepy. They just growl and grunt a lot. Just thinking about what they sound like gives me bad shivers.
The next day, me and DJ found Sam and Eli. Sam is close to my age, and she's the one with the family who has the compound. Eli is a couple years older than me, and DJ met Eli and his family on the road, that first day the world went to crap. Both Sam and Eli suffered a lot of loss, like me and DJ, did. Sam lost some of her family, and Eli lost all his family. It's been a couple days now, almost three, that me and DJ have been up here with Sam and Eli, just waiting… for Sam's family to get here and take us back with them to the compound. But, if they don't get here any time soon, then we'll have to go on an adventure to the compound ourselves, which God forbid we don't have to do because we could possibly die. Sam is writing a letter to her family, right now, in case we have to leave before they get here. She was the one who gave me a new journal to write in. Sam seems pretty cool. She told me and DJ some interesting things about the compound. Like how her grandpa has been prepared for the apocalypse to happen someday, so that's why he built it, and that the place is huge, where about a thousand people can live and survive there. DJ and I are so freaking lucky, that is if we actually make it to the compound. Eli seems cool too, and he's funny. He told us about HUFFs. Which is what he and Sam have been calling the dead, and it stands for hungry, ugly, freaky, f*ckers. Oh yeah, there's a cat up here who likes to hang out with us. His name is Bailey. He's a really nice cat, and loves to rest and sleep on someone's lap, which he's doing right now on my lap. So that's everything I needed to say, or write, about how my life has changed forever.