A Spark

chapter one

I sat down next to my boyfriend Ron In front of the warm fire.
Since the world went to shit, we've both stuck together. I've known Ron since we were kids and my parents always seemed to push us two together.

I really do love him but lately Ron has been different, almost mean. Like I'm the one to blame for everything that's happened.
He's changed.
Ive changed.
But we'd never give up on each other. We've both lost our family. The only person left was my father but when a herd came through he told us two to run and never look back; and that's what we did.

Weeks ago Ron and I went on a run and found tons of amo and guns. To be safe, Ron buried them near our camp so no one could steal them. We're both trying to figure out where to go next. "Violet?" Ron asks "yeah?"

"Do you hear that?" He says concerned and I can hear deep voices yelling. "Yeah, we should go check it out." Ron and I follow the voices quietly and see two males tied to a tree. "What the hell?" I whisper a little flustered.
One male was older probably around his 30's and the other a teenage boy. He looks around my age. Ron comes out from the tree; i tug on his arm trying to stop him, but he slips from my grasp. "Ron!" I try to be quiet but it's no use.

"What do we have here?" Ron tries to put on his tough guy facade. "Please me and my boy just need to get out of these ropes." Ron walks circles around them and I creeped out from behind the tree. "What happened? Who are you?" Ron asks "I'm Rick, this is my son Carl. We were out on a run when a group got us from behind and we woke up tied up here. All of our supplies is gone." Rick looks at Ron in hopes of getting help.

"Well that's too bad but you must've done something to get yourselves here. Me and my girl Violet have to get going now." Ron says without compassion and tugged at my arm.
"Wait!" The teen boy looked me straight in the eyes, his blue orbs meeting mine. He had beautiful eyes and I couldn't help but get lost in them.

"Please." He practically begged. "I can't" I say under my breath and looked down. Carl noticed when I purposely dropped something. "Well let's going Violet."
Ron starts walking down the road sounding almost chipper; like he was getting some kind of joy from their misery. Noticing me not coming he says "You coming?" I look back at him.

"Uh yeah I dropped something, keep going I'll catch up." And Ron does so. I picked up the knife i dropped and look over my shoulder, making sure Ron wasn't watching. I ran over to where Carl was and whispered in his ear "Get you and your dad out of here." I pulled away and looked into his eyes. I handed him the knife and ran to catch up with Ron.
Leaving Carl looking mesmerized.

(Sorry these first few chapters are short and sloppy, they were originally 3rd pov but I'm changing them to 1st, I hope you're enjoying it so far!❤️)