Everything's different yesterday

diary entry 1

"Dear diary"

It reads

"This sucks
I've never written in a diary journal thing
Or whatever before

This is the first time I did this, the nurses handed these out during the quarantine admission to "boost morale" or something

You might think this is gonna be some, "oOOo0o spookyy" zombie apocalypse journal you'd find in an abandoned building

Not going to lie, there is the possibility, but considering how fast the epidemic was stopped

It's probably not gonna happen

What IS gonna happen, though, is me waiting, waiting for 1 year just to make sure I'm not infected.

We were moving that day
We were gonna be at a new house, me and my sisters going to a new school
In a brand new city

But there was a quarantine checkpoint

The protocol was that we had to quarantine for 1 year
Because the government said so

But
My dad needs to start right away at his new job

Went ahead and made a deal with his cousin
Who worked as an officer

Uncle Jerr knew some guys who worked at the checkpoint
He said he could sneak us in
We just had to stick together and stay out of sight

Ah corruption
I can see why politicians do this

We got there
It was early morning
Wasn't as crowded as it looked on TV
When they broadcasted the quarantine procedures

It was quiet
Some armed guards stood by some large white tents
Few were sitting down or eating breakfast, and few were sleeping

But most of them stood alert

The officer that Uncle Jerr knew, led us to one tent

Told us that we just had to wait in one of the lines
And we could go through by 9 am

Because we were in the final admission area where the people who previously went through quarantine could get finalized and finally get through

We were early here so we could just basically stand around
But when 8 rolled around

People started coming in
A crowd walked in where we did an hour ago

Some looked at us weird, probably wondering why we were here earlier, but didn't question it

It was basically smooth sailing from here

Some guy ran in
Tested positive in the previous test for the infection

Fuckin spat on the people inside the tent

The fucker got caught
And we still had to quarantine for 5 months

And now here I am

In a tent
With a bed

Rotting away until I die
Wish I died for real tho

God this is so boring"

The entry ends
With a rose doodle

With a flip to the next page
A crinkle a crackle of old paper

More doodles pop up
Well intentioned scribbles of half naked men

Cross hatched, shaded
Some doodles colored with pencils and crayons

Colors contrasting and complementary blended in milky combination

1,2,3,4

5, the sixth page is torn out
7,8