Chapter One - Clementine Everett

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Chapter One - Clementine Everett

My name's Clementine, Clementine Everett. That was not always my name though, it was a name I had adopted throughout the years, my real name is Clementine Marsh, but after the past incident, which I will tell you, I changed it.  But that's enough of the past right now, because your learning about me, not to sound vein but that's important. I'm sixteen years old and have quite long brown hair and dark chocolate coloured eyes, and I must say, I'm on the skinny side.

The world ended when I was around eight, the most least expected thing happened, a zombie apocalypse. The dead infested the world and destroyed everything we knew. People managed to have at least a loved one or someone they held close with them when it broke out but I guess I was unlucky. My parents had gone away for a weekend and left me with a babysitter, everything was going great but one night all hell broke loose. One moment I was playing in my front room, the next I was watching my baby sitter getting bitten by a random man, I had ran outside and hid in my treehouse for three whole days, I waited and waited, hoping and hoping that my parents would come home or that I'd wake up and everything would be okay, but nothing was okay after that and they never came home either. One day a man came into my house, he got rid of the monster that was once my babysitter and he looked after me, he protected me with his life, his name was Lee, Lee Everett. He taught me how to defend myself, how to shoot, how to live in a world where you are no longer safe. No matter what anyone told me I had a strong belief that my parents were still alive. A man, desperate for a family, contacted me on my little radio saying he'd take me to see them, Lee had refused earlier that day. So I ran away from Lee to this man but he only locked me in a room, I will never forget that. But Lee, even though I betrayed him, came to my rescue. He fought and killed this man to get me back, I'd never been so happy to see him. Lee got us out of that building, but on the way out, I saw my parents...but not the way I wanted to. They were no longer my parents, just vicious monsters. Now I remember this part as clear as day, like it was yesterday, I could feel my body shaking and tears were threatening to come out, but then Lee fainted, and every sad emotion I felt got pushed down because I needed to save Lee, he was all I had left. I managed to drag him into a near by store and when he awoke he told me he got bit coming to save me. Never have I ever felt my heart drop that hard, I begged him and begged him not to turn, not to leave me! I couldn't do this without Lee, I felt as if I was being crushed, I had to leave him there, I miss you Lee. After Lee passed, I went from people to people but I never stopped losing people, its was unavoidable. I learned to feel emotionless because I knew there was nothing I could of to protect people anymore, no matter how hard I tried.  MY skills in fighting got better and with that I got stronger and braver, I was no longer a fragile child anymore. Then one day, the thing no one ever thought would happen happened. The military came, and somehow cleaned it all up, by the time it had ended I was 11, I had seen things that  will never leave my nightmares. I was adopted when everything went as normal as it could be, but having this new family, that pressured Barbie  and pink of me for the next 5 years , changed me, then i was no longer the invincible girl I once was, I was a pathetic teenage girl. The people i lived with tried getting the past out of my head, they tried taking my hat off me but my real father gave me that i was not ever giving it up. I had one picture of Lee and  few drawings from my journey, I will always remember and never forget. Sometimes I get stuck in a daze and think that maybe Lee never died, maybe he was just ill and immune to the bite, but i know that's not true, Lee is gone, but he will forever be in my heart.  But that's enough of soppy, because life is taking a turn for the worse again, the apocalypse has took a relapse lets say, now i have lost all hope of surviving, lets see how long i last, shall we? 

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REWRITTEN!


Hi guys! I've just rewritten this chapter, please let me know if you like it and if its better then it was.


Lotta love - Shan x

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