When Your Broken

Chapter 1-The Beginning

CAROL'S POV

We were parked on the interstate just outside of downtown Atlanta, traffic came had came to a stand still as we were told to evacuate the city. The CDC said that there was a virus spreading but we didn't know what it was all we knew was it was turning people into flesh eating Monsters. I met this nice lady who was parked beside us with her husband and son, her name was Lori, it was nice to talk to other people you couldn't talk to Ed he would always be a sarcastic smart ass. I was standing next to the car talking to Lori when her husband walked up ans joined us in conversation, we were chatting for a minute when I felt a hard grasp on my left arm, it was Ed. "What did I tell you about talking to men" he said roughly as he tightened and twisted his grip around my arm. "I was just speaking to Lori when he walked up it would have been rude of me to just excuse myself immediately" I said softly. 

As we stood there waiting we saw fighter jets fly over us and into Atlanta and we just heard loud booms, I see Lori & Shane coming running back towards their car. "Y'all need to get out of here the military just dropped bombs in the streets" Lori said. They hopped into their car and head away from Atlanta as we followed them, they went up a dirt road and we parked at the top of the hill. Before we get out of the car, Ed grabs me again "How bout you don't go being a whore tonight talking to that man" he said I didn't answer him opening my door about to get out when I felt him jerk me back "Do you understand me" he said. I just shook my head yes shutting the door and grabbing Sophia. Others started showing up they must have followed us they said that the flesh eaters started coming threw the high way biting people so they decided to get away before anything else happened.

Ed threw the tent at me and ordered me to assemble it, he was such a fat lazy bastard I hated him more and more with each passing day. He refused to do anything for himself, I threw the tent together and grabbed Sophia and went to sit next to the fire were Lori and her son Carl were sitting. I was beginning to get hungry but Ed didn't want anyone to know we had a shit ton of MRE's that way he didn't have to share he didn't care if somebody was starving he would still hog it all for himself. It was getting late so I told Sophia that we should go to bed we went into the tent and I got her snug in her sleeping bad and I laid down in mine. "Goodnight Sophia" I said "Goodnight Mommy" she said sweetly. Sophia was my only reason for living, if it wasn't for her I would have probably let Ed kill me already and I wouldn't hang on the way I do.

I couldn't begin to tell you how many times that man threw me down our flight of stairs at the house, or how many black eyes and busted lips he gave me. I ended up learning how to pop my own arm back in socket so I didn't have to keep going to the emergency department lying to the nurses, When I went in there I saw the way they looked at me. I didn't need to be judged by them, they knew nothing about me I opened up the tent to see a group of even more people now gathered around the fire. I woke up Sophia up and took her with me leaving that deviled man asleep, and went and joined them having a small breakfast.

We all more or so just sat around talking threw out the day there wasn't much to do but sit and wait praying that the military will arrive soon and take care of us keeping us safe. I learned some of the names of the people who had arrived there was a older man that was dale, a mexican family who's last name was Morales, there was a young  korean boy name Glenn, 2 rough looking rednecks Daryl & Merle and I also found out that Lori wan't married to Shane. That her husband was dead he was let in a hospital in Atlanta and that Shane was his best friend and police partner and he helped save them.

It seems like ever since we set up camp here Ed was becoming worse anytime somebody would speak to me Ed would become irreparable, and as soon as he got me alone where nobody could see or hear him he would unleash anger on me. Shane asked me where we were from one night while we were all gathered around the fire, as soon as we got back to the tent Ed told me that I was a worthless whore and that I needed to keep my mouth shut hitting me in the mouth as hard as he could afterwards. That shit hurt so bad but I fought back the tears I wasn't giving him justice in seeing me cry knowing that he got to me. Another evening he swore he say we looking at another man, same thing happened as soon as he got me alone but this time giving me 2 black eyes I knew everybody at camp now knew what was going on. As long as he never hurt Sophia i'll be okay, he isn't going to hurt her I would throw myself in front of her even though that meant I would get the shit beat out of me time and time again.

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