Destined To Die

I leave a girl to die

It's 2025 and so far we aren't doing well. You see last year the Twilight Outbreak started.
Nobody thought much of it and had thought that it was another new variant of the coronavirus. That's still going on after 7 years because the first vaccine released more problems into the world after a year.

Everything eventually got under control after peacekeepers were released everywhere. That cut the population down by one billion. Or should I say it cut out an entire country which ended up being India.
They bombed it because it had the highest traces of the new variant and didnt feel like creating yet another vaccine because they were tired of doing the same thing for years.

After that the government fell.

Being in Victoria wasn't a great place to be for that.
Riots popped up everywhere and we went into a frenzy.
It was a free for all.

I had this hideout in the bottom of my apartment that nobody knew about so I took any supplies I could find down there and stocked up.

After about a week I couldn't find anything.
Shelves were plucked clean, any refrigerated food that got left behind was rotten, nothing left. If you were able to stumble across any useful items, you would've been the lucky person of the day.
Maybe even the week.

Today I'm going on a new loop to look for supplies. It's not very big but I don't trust going far.
I packed up my bag with a revolver, some water and a few items to eat.
"Ok, It's 10 am right now. I should be home by 2."

Like that I started out on my journey.
After checking every store within a two block radius around my hideout, the only thing I ended up finding were a bunch of rotting bodies covered in wounds and blood.

One of them seemed like she had just died recently because the blood was still running out of her throat, stomach and arm. I'd say she was stabbed in her arm and stomach then they slit her throat for good measure.

Sad part was that I wasn't even phased from it.
I've seen a lot this year, let alone this week. Honestly it's insane what happened when the government shattered.

Who knew this would happen even.
Me, I knew it was going to happen.
When I was about 7 I had a dream about it.

That's why my hideout in the basement of the apartment building exists. I felt I would need it eventually.
I guess it was deja vu, or at least a form of it.

I got caught up in my thoughts until I heard a scream.
I ran up to the corner of the block and there was a girl around my age being surrounded by a group of around 5 dressed in all black with their faces covered.

"Time to head home" I mumble under my breath.

I saw more groups of people like that one who had surrounded the girl so decided to go through my sewer route. Nobody goes down there because since the sewer system in down, it smells really bad. This is more of a last resort way home if anything.

Once I got home I had water and canned beans.
The way I use my food savings is eat anything that's close to going bad so anything that lasts a longer time, I save for when its needed. So far its working well.