how the times change...

how to survive: alone

1st July 2002, the world fell.

Aria Morgan, a 10 year old brunette girl with killer Hazel eyes who loved being alone. And when the world fell, all she wanted was somebody with her.

Aria was an only child for most of her life until her mum fell pregnant with her baby sister and forgot all about her. When the world fell, Aria was left to fend for herself. Her mother and father took her sister and fled to the nearest camp, not knowing where or why her parents left her confused Aria. All she knew to do was to protect herself, somehow.. but how much can a 10 year old do alone..?

WEEK 1;

I knew i couldn't be seen by the flesh eating monsters. But when they wear the face of your friends, teachers or anyone you know. It makes me wonder, how am I still here. Yesterday was my birthday, and instead of spending it with my family, I spent it stabbing people I knew in the head, fighting to survive and living off of canned sweetcorn and water. I didn't know how long this was going to last. Maybe it was like a cold? Maybe there are people working on it. That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

WEEK 2+3;

I didn't know how long it had been since the world fell. I didn't want to know. I haven't come across anyone alive yet, I wish I had.

I have been staying in an abandoned shop, and it is pretty full. I mean, there's food and there's drinks, toothpaste/brush and clothes. What more could I need in a world that is falling apart in front of me..?

I lost count on how many corpses I had killed, about 15? Most of them were near death experiences, I was an 11 year old girl alone in an abandoned shop.. the only weapons I have are a machete and a knife. Which were pretty good considering. I don't know how much longer I can survive, I don't know how much longer I want to survive. It sounds stupid, but for about 3 weeks, I've been alone, killing these things and starving.

WEEK 4;

I woke up to the sun blasing in my eyes. The sound of corpses instantly caught my attention, Dozens of them pounding on the windows of the shop I had been staying in for a while, I grabbed my nearly empty bag and stocked up on canned food and any bottles I could fit in my bag. As a woman, I needed to get sanitary products, I grabbed 2 boxes of pads, and my hair brush and toothbrush, I put them all in my bag and grabbed my weapons before running out the back door.

Stupidly, I didn't even think to check how many corpses were out there and just legged it. I was greeted by about 10 corpses, Instead of panicking, I set my bag down and grabbed my machete. This world changed me, sometimes for the better, times like these I needed to change. Taking deep breaths, I killed them whilst they were coming at me. One by one, their corpses fell to my feet.

The sound of my machete hitting their head and their bodies falling caught the attention of the rest of the corpses. I needed to get out of here, I grabbed my backpack and climbed the fence that led to the car park. Which to my luck was also covered in corpses. I froze, I used to do that a lot, but this I'd the first time in a while that I didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, a big lorry came into the parking lot, running over the corpses. Once they had finished their show, they drove over to where I was stabbing the corpses in the head. I thought they were going to help me and let out a sigh of relief. I was so terribly wrong. About 5 or 6 big men came out of the back of the lorry, I didn't know what to do, but I knew they were not here to help me. I dropped my bag and ran, I didn't care about the corpses right now, I needed to get away.

"HEY GET BACK!!" One of the men screamed to me.

I didn't care to listen, I was over the fence and thought I was free, but two of the men tackled me to the floor. They were massive compared to me, and as their bodies crushed mine, I lost consciousness.