To The End of Forever

The Day It All Began

   I remember it very clearly, like it was yesterday. I'd gone to the skate-park like I usually do-did like I usually did. And then I got a text message from my phone. I ignored it, thinking it was just more spam from my group chats. How naive I was. To think that if I had checked to see what the message was on my phone then, maybe all of this would have been different. I'd be at the safe house with my family. That's how it should have gone, that's how it should be. And yet here I stand, alone as I have been for the past month, looking around at all the same old places I used to hang out, It almost feels like nothing has changed, and yet at the same time, everything has changed. I looked down at my phone now, it had long since run out of battery, but I kept it with me. I'm not sure why, maybe I kept it as a token to remember the past, or too show me what could have been if I looked down at that text message. That text message...

One month earlier...

   "Hey Alan, where you headed?" My mom asked as I put my helmet on. "To the skate-park," I answered grabbing my skateboard. "Alright, stay safe." She said as I opened the front door. I rolled my eyes. "Don't worry mom I'll be fine." I said before shutting the door. 

   I road my skateboard to the skate-park which was just over a block from my house. I arrived and opened the gate, I got back on my board and started to head towards the ramp when I heard the notification sound for my phone. I debated pulling it out and then though, better not. I was probably just the group-chat my friends had added me into. I seriously needed to figure out how to mute their messages...

   I road down the ramp and that's when I noticed how empty the skate-park was. That was strange, usually the skate-park was rather busy, especially during Summer, and despite how close I lived to it, I was almost never the first person there. 

That's when I should have realized something was up.

   I looked down to check my watch. 10:05 am. It wasn't that early. I looked over the gate to see if anyone was on their way. No one. Skating wasn't that fun unless you were with you friends, most of my school friends lived pretty from me but I did know some of the kids who came around here often. Maybe their just sick or something...

   I skated down the ramp and started heading towards the second one. I was strangely quiet. Even if there weren't other kids at the skate-park there was usually someone walking their dog or going for a run but I looked again and there was no one in sight, the place looked deserted. There weren't even any birds chirping. Okay this is weird where did everyone go? I skated out of the park and looked around again. There weren't even any cars parked or driving. Is this some kind of weird prank or something? I thought to myself as I looked around the area. I decided to check my watch again. 10:21. It's been about 15 minutes since I got here and not one other person showed up?

   I decided to go home, I didn't feel comfortable staying at the skate-park, it felt like a ghost town. I knocked on the door but no one answered. I knocked again but still no answer. I tried the door, it was unlocked. "Mom?" I asked walking into the house. No answer. My dad was at work and I didn't have any siblings so my mom would be the only one home. "Mom?" I asked again walking throughout the house looking for her. Still no answer. 

   That's odd, usually my mom left me a note if she was headed out even if I was out. Maybe she texted me.  I thought to myself remembering I had gotten a  text message when I was a the skate-park. I didn't have a text message from my mom, but there was a notification for something else. I checked to see what app it was from and saw it was the news. I clicked the news app to see what it said.  

   REPORTS OF AN OUTBREAK OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS STARTED: Everyone needs to evacuate to the Safe House, the whereabouts of this location are currently disclosed- Read More....

As I was going to click 'Read More' I got another notification from my phone, I went off to click it and then my phone screen went black. "No no no no no no no!" I frantically pushed the on button but it wasn't working. My phone was dead. Crap. I searched for a charger. This is the worst possible time for this to happen. 

   Just then I heard glass shattering. We're people breaking in? I hadn't locked the door. I dropped my phone. Crap. They would hear me now. "Whose there?!" I head an unknown voice from the other side of the house. I picked up my phone and quickly opened the door and ran out of the house.

   I didn't check to see if they were chasing me, I had to go somewhere, but where? I knocked on the door to my neighbor's house. No answer. Were they all gone? Where could I go... I needed a charger, perhaps I could break in? But I couldn't do that, i wouldn't do that not even if it was the end of the world, I had to keep my morals, it was all I had left.

Present Day...

   Somehow I managed to survive for a month, I've spent most of my time in hiding because I didn't want to hurt the zombies, after all they used to be people. I found  gun while searching through some abandoned ares, I promised I wouldn't use it unless I absolutely had to for self defense. I managed to survive by taking the food from stores, everyone else was probably at the safe house so the food wouldn't be any good to them. 

   I sighed. Even though I longed for human company, I hoped no one was out here other than me, I doubt I'll make it to the safe house, I have no idea where it was and if anyone else was stuck here with me then they probably wouldn't make it to the safe house either, and if we didn't make it to the safe house then I guess we'll have to survive with what we have. I had found and abandoned house that I was staying in for the next...well forever I guess. Until I had to move again before I run out of food. 

   And that's how I live. Well how I've been living for the past month anyway, 16 years old and already living on my own. In normal circumstances that may be an accomplishment. Still haven't seen another human, it feels like it's been a lot longer than it has and I've picked up the habit of talking to myself. And... that's that, I've accepted that this is my life now, I didn't know at the time that I wasn't the only one not in the safe house, I did know however, that I could only go so long surviving alone.

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