The Last Of Us

Chapter one: San Ardmond

San Ardmond, the place where i was born, the place where I grew up. It's the place where I made the happiest memories of my life but also the place where my most horrendous nightmare took place. Keeping aside the bad memories, this city still looks the same to me even though a lot of things has been changed throughout the years. I can't believe it's been 6 years that i have left Atlanta and moved to London. Before leaving this place for good,I had decided that I will never come back but here i am, staying at a hotel in Atlanta for a vacation. My friends, Loraine and Aaron, they decided I should travel more often and see places. After a handful of quarrels, i finally agreed but they disagreed to tell me where we were going. Well,when i found out, it was already too late to say something. I almost killed them for choosing Atlanta over all the places on this huge planet.

However, it's not their fault. If they knew what happened, they would never force me to come here. The problem is with me. I never feel comfortable about telling the reason behind my resistance of coming to Atlanta.I was about 9 when my parents died, leaving me behind with my older twin step brothers, Josh and Jake. But, a few years later when I finished highschool, i was done with this place. The memories of the day would haunt me, slowly preying on me as I tried to shove them away from my mind. By that time I already knew Loraine and Aaron, i told them about how I wanted to move away, fortunately they lived in London. They insisted and tried a lot of things before I finally agreed. And that was it, we went our separate ways. I moved to to London and my brothers moved to Melbourne. We were still in touch but eventually due to the lack of communication, our bonding started to fade away but it's didn't bother me. We didn't have a great bonding anyway. We barely talked, always stayed away from each other as we grew up. In about a year after moving, the thing whatever we have got more awkward. I grew up more, they grew up, both focusing on our careers.

I got a paid internship before I finished studying. They paid me a really good amount for just reading manuscripts all day which I enjoyed a lot. Loving two friends who treated me like their own family member in a country where I knew absolutely no one except for them. But even with all this, i missed my own family. By the time I graduated, i felt like my brothers utterly forgot that they even had a younger sister. Though later on they called and congratuated me. Despite the situation between us, i always admired them though I never said it to them.

With the debate that's going on in my head about how things could have been and how I wouldn't have been thinking this if I hadn't came,I would have never known how much I missed this place if I hadn't agreed to come here in the first place. I look out the huge glass window from the chair I'm sitting on,observing every single thing my eyes fell on, the roads, the buildings,the light blue cloudless sky. I missed this place,the air, the people,the environment,the sweet,happy memories i had made. Thinking about memories filled me nostalgia. I feel how my vision is getting a little blurry. I blink a few times, sniffing and bringing back myself from the land of thoughts where I often gey lost and I realize Aaron is waving his hand trying to catch my attention.

"Oh, hey Aaron. I'm sorry I was just a little-" i try to say get cut off by him like always.

"Lost?"he asks.

"Yeah. So, what were you saying?" I ask trying to change the subject.

"What happens to you all of a sudden? You get lost a lot." He pauses probably looking for words and I pray inside that he wouldn't ask me what happened because I don't want to talk about it.

"Anyways,"he continues and i get relived for not having to answer. " i was saying that I want us to go out and eat. You,me,Loraine and," He pauses.

"And?"

"Your brothers." He says in low voice.

"My brothers?" I ask, the shock is clear in my voice. It's been years we haven't met.

"Yeah. You know I'm also friends with your brothers and they told me they are here,so I told them that we are here too. So, they told that they would like to meet you and I agreed." He says and rubs his neck with his hand.

"Oh." I say, unable to find the right words to say.

"I can say no if you want?" He offers.

"No, it's okay. Things are weird but I would love to meet them" i smile.

"Okay. I'll pick you beautiful ladies at 6." He says while getting up. He walks to the door, turns the doorknob around and walks straight out of the room.

"I don't know what I will say when I meet them. I don't know what will happen." I sigh.

"Whatever is meant to happen will happen." Loraine replies while keeping her eyes on the TV.

"Seriously?" I roll my eyes at the quote. "Lori, i need advice" I say but she doesn't answer. "Lori! Are you gonna ignore me and watch this stupid news!" I shout in an attempt to gain her attention from the stupid television she stays quiet

"Honey, first of all, I'm not ignoring you. Second of all, you gotta watch this, the news is interesting." She finally replies after which feels like an eternity but her eye are still glued to the television screen.

I huff as I walk toward to bed, grabbing the remote from her hand and shutting the television off.

"Oh my God. Let me watch!" She groans,snatching the remote back and turning it on.

"What's so interesting that you are watching the news? Miss Loraine Edward is watching the news with more interest than while watching random shows!" I dramatically say as I sit down on edge of the bed beside her, curious about what's so interesting in the news that made her see it. Lori isn't a type of girl who would sit and watch news.

"It says that the police found some weird men who were biting others and when they tried to shoot and stop them, they bit one of their men."

"What? Turn the volume up." I say, again totally bewildered like I was a second ago.

Police suggest that this might be some new kind of drug that has been released. But, this theory isn't fully possible because some of them weren't drug users. Yet, the cheif said that the police investigation team is doing their best.

Moreover, the police cheif also said that there are reports of the same symptom in other cities from 2 days ago. Cheif said that the other police departments were keeping this as a secret to prevent havoc from spreading. The bodies have been sent for postmortem and the reports will be out soon.

For more information keep watching-

"Weird." I say as Lori turned the TV off.

"I know right." She says and looks at me, raising an eyebrow. "Is Miss Emily scared?" She teases.

"I'm not scared,shut up!" I roll my eyes at her. She knew I was freaking out so she took the advantage of it.

"You're scared aren't you?" She smirks.

"No, I'm not." I lie, like who isn't going to be scared if random people start behaving like cannibalistic maniacs?

She tries to act like the ones the reporter talked about and tries to bite my hand.I push her away but she still tries until she finally bites my hand. I mouth 'ouch' and she starts laughing hysterically.

"I still wonder how we became friends." I give her a 'you're a weirdo' look.

"We became friends because we both are weird." She laughs.

After that we both say random stupid things and laugh at it for another hour until we realize it's past 5 and we have to get ready by 6. We trip and fall as we rush to pick an outfit, rushing to the bathroom to change and do our makeup.

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