All Alone

Time Goes On

4 years have passed. I'm 15, Shawn and Alyssa are 16, John is 15 1/2, and Narra is 6, almost 7. Shawn has taken a liking to Narra, Alyssa's daughter. She calls Shawn dad and Shawn yells at her for that, but I can see Shawn thinks it's cute. Narra is really cute, and mature. Well of course she is mature, Alyssa is her mother. Alyssa was never a little kid, she never baby talked, she never did all of that baby stuff like watch the or anything like that. She was always so mature. That's what I didn't get when she was with Carter. He was so childish, but she loved him more than life itself. She saw what none of us could see. She could see the good in him. Alyssa has a rifle, I have a mini katanah, John has a really big knife, Shawn has a shotgun and Narra has Alyssa's old pistol. We have more weapons duh, but it would take forever to name them. We have a kinda house. It's in the middle of the woods, away from any cities. There's a creek by our little community. So that's a plus. We get our food from hunting.
Tonight, when I was sleeping, I heard a rustling noise, so I grabbed my mini sword and stalked to where the noise was coming from. It was Alyssa. I watched her as she walked over to a tree and slid her back down it. Then hugged her knees to her chest. I walked over to her, she was looking off in the distance. Soon I was standing over her but it's like she didn't notice. "You miss him, huh?" She snaps out of her little trance. "What, oh, yeah." I nod and sit down in front of her. "It wasn't puppy love like all the other 7th grade romances. It was real." I nod for her to continue. "So yeah, I miss him a lot. I remember he used to pick me up, and when I was looking in my mirror he would come up behind me and put his head on my shoulder and stare at me. It's been hard." A tear rolls down her cheek and she wipes her eyes. Then she says, "May you never have to go through what I went through." With that she gets up and walks away, leaving me alone in the dark. I thought about everything she just said. She is strong, she has to be.