Judgement Day

Jelly Drops

It was not just Julie. People all around him started dying unexpectedly. First it was Julie, then it was his neighbour, and then his childhood friend... One by one, humans started to perish from this earth and William, he felt dead too.

As the economy went down, people were getting laid off from work. William was one of those people. So he was at home, in an empty house, without a meaning to survive, and the world as he knew it was gone.

The apocalypse made people go back to their primal nature. The shops were deserted, so anything on the shelves were free to take. Every week, William put it up to himself to walk over to the store to obtain some resources for survival. He looked through what was left in the isle. There he spotted some of his favourite candy, jelly drops. It was a small packet that William enjoyed before the world went chaotic. However, William just batted an eye to them and picked the food that he required for the week.

There was no time for jelly drops in the apocalypse.

He passed by very few people on the way home. Everyone walked away from each other. No one stopped to see if anyone was okay. It was the end of the world, and everyone only cared about themselves.

William knew that he could be selfish and aloof. He always took up extra resources and never smiled at the few remaining kids. He was brutally honest and couldn't cover up the fact that the world had fallen apart.

On some days, William thought about himself as a selfish, cruel man, even before the world went astray. All he wanted was power and to get to a higher level. He felt destructive of himself and everyone around him, that was why he was one of the few humans left on the planet. On the other hand, he also considered himself a survivor. Maybe, he was actually one of the good ones left. He never meant ill to anyone, it was just how he was.

There was nothing good in the apocalypse. No smiles, no hugs, and no love. Just a dead town with nothing in it.