Chapter 1: Done Running

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When the dead starting walking... I was just a kid, a small kid.

All I had was my older brother, Ivan, he was my protector.

But, after his death... he got replaced, replaced by a man named Lee.

I wasn't the only kid Lee was looking after, though. He had a little girl with him named Clementine. A little girl, now a teenager, who became my best friend.

We also had a group that we were with.

There was this one woman... Lily was her name, she lost her father and along the way lost her mind a little.

She killed another person in our group, Carley.

This caused Lee to then leave her on the side of the road.

Lee taught me and Clementine how to survive, something I'll always be grateful for, along with him trying to protect us for as long as he could. But not everything lasts long... In the end, he got bit.

His final request was for one of us to shoot him so he wouldn't turn into one of them.

I couldn't go through with it, so Clementine did. But not before he gave us some parting words of wisdom.

"Keep that hair short. Not worth the risk."

After all of that, we met a new group. Good people. Broken but good people. One of them, a woman named Rebecca, had a child. Alvin Junior, or- AJ, as we called him for short. AJ made it, but Rebecca didn't.

So, Clementine and I started to take care of him.

But another person we met, Jane, had left him out in the snow. We for sure thought he was dead. This was Kenny's final straw though... and we both had to make the call.

But couldn't. But then also didn't have to, Kenny managed to overpower Jane, and killed her.

Luckily, we found AJ alive and well in a nearby car. Jane apparently hid him to prove a point. And despite everything that had happened, we all stuck together for AJ's sake.

But everything has to come to an end sometime, right?

After losing Kenny, me, Clem, and AJ then headed off to find somewhere else, and we did. The New Frontier. Big mistake staying there.

They took AJ from us. Said that we were 'too young' to look after him. But we fought, we weren't just going to let them take him from us.

We were too weak, though... So we had to leave, leave without him.

We searched for a while, and it was painful for the both of us. But we kept our heads up and persisted. And just like that, he was back in our arms again. Safe and sound.

Honestly, Clem and AJ are all that I've got. Especially after all that I've lost... My mom, my dad, my brothers...

I just can't lose them too. And I know the feeling's mutual.

I'll die for them if that's what it takes. I know that's what Ivan would've done. My parents too.

Even Lee.

Especially Lee.

Yulia looked out the window of the passenger side window where she sat comfortably. She was always a daydreamer, looking off into the distance, imagining herself in another world that was happier than her current one. Clementine took notice of this, shooting a glance at her resting her head up against the glass barrier between her and the outside world.

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