Survivors (Paily)

Ch.4 Jake

Song: The Parting Glass

This is not an Ed Sheeran song but I liked this version the best. 

Tess jogs to the room, knowing that she has to hurry, it quickly turned to nightfall and trusting Paige alone with Emily was something she didn't want to bet her money on.

Paige is a hothead, she never listens to other people, never wants help from other people and always wants to be the lone wolf. Judging from the stubbornness Paige shows other people would think that she was always that way, but Tess knew differently. Paige never met their parents, the mother died giving birth while the father died trying to save her, the only survivor was 15 year old Tess.

She stood watching as her mother bleed to death in an abandoned barn and her father fled to seek out medicine to stop the mothers pain, only to never return. Tess laid with her dead mother, hand on her mothers chest, singing the song her mom used to always use to help her sleep.

Of all the money that e'er I had

I've spent it in good company

And all the harm that e'er I've done

Alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit

To memory now I can't recall

So fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had

They are sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts that e'er I had

They would wish me one more day to stay

But since it falls unto my lot

That I should rise and you should not

I'll gently rise and I'll softly call

Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk

A man may fight and not be slain

A man may court a pretty girl

And perhaps be welcomed back again

But since it has so ought to be

By a time to rise and a time to fall

Come fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all

Good night and joy be with you all

Tess considered staying to wait for her father to return, but a crying newborn made a lot of noise which attracted a lot of clickers. She packed all she could fit in her backpack and fled the barn.

Taking care of a baby was definitely not easy, especially at age 15. Tess found herself many times wanting to abandon the baby, thinking about how much of an easier life it would be if she didn't have to care for it but every time she looked at her baby brother all she saw was the bright hazel eyes her mother had. She knew her parents wouldn't want her to abandon her brother, so she didn't. She kept fighting and surviving for her family.