My Last Breath

Chapter 1 Alex's POV

I sit on my bed in silence with my arms crossed over my chest and begin to think. 3 years. Its been 3 agonizing years of an apocalypse. I'm Alex Merlyn, 15, female. I've been prepped and trained my entire life, guns, bows, crossbows, what to do in this situation and what to do in that. Everything you could think of basically.

My family became preppers, doomsday preppers. We first started thinking an EMP, electro magnetic pulse, would be set off by the government or the sun would have a massive solar flare, turning off and ruining all electronics rendering them useless, leaving us in the Stone Age.

Well that didn't happen.

A virus called XC8 spread through Africa, then South America, transmitting into North America, then into every other continent of the world. The virus was a illness like consumption, ate away your lungs until you would drown in your own blood. After your drown you would awake as well, a zombie. You crave human flesh so you bite someone and then they have the XC8 virus. The virus gives you about 48 hours of agony before you finally drown. Most people haven't wanted to see the day that they start killing the ones they love so they kill themselves. Pop a bullet in the head. I want to go down swinging but hey, that's just me.

Anyway, yeah, Alex Merlyn, 15, female, soldier, etc etc. I am so different since 2014. Back then I was funny, I was happy, I showed emotion, I smiled. Now, well now I'm just a corpse. Thats how it has to be. I have to be strong so no one questions my authority. I can't show any emotion. I have to show them I can lead. As them I mean our group. Yeah over the years of moving place to place we've picked up some people, then lost some, then gained some. Right now our group is composed of 11 people, not including me, that we have to protect. The 11 people are:

1.) Bob Smith~ My grandpa
2.) Julie Smith~ My grandma
3.) Belle Merlyn~ My mom
4.) Max~ My dad
5.) Peter~ 16 year old we picked up about a year ago
6.) Jane~ 13 year old orphan we took in 2 years ago
7.) Sam~ 22 year old we picked up a year and a half ago
8.) Vanessa~ 21 year old Sam's girlfriend we found her and Sam together
9.) Nate~ 34 year old father
10.) Emily~ 34 year old Mother Nate's wife
11.) Ivy~ 3 year old Emily and Nate's daughter

Currently all 12 of us are sitting in an abandoned where house that was planned for demolition so there's a nice large fence all around the building to keep the zombies out. Oh and the bed I'm laying on? Yeah its a wood pallet.

I look over to the others who all seem to be asleep except my Dad who is awake with a shotgun in his hand on watch. I turn my head back towards the ceiling and let my body un-tense as I slowly drift off into unconsciousness.