Greenville Pandimic

chapter one

yellow camp

I was born at a time when the world was at war with itself, The government had poisoned the adults, however they didn't realize that the poison they gave our parents  would spread as fast as it did, they didn't even realize what they  had created.
Pretty soon we had orphaned children crying for their parents who would never again tuck them in at night or give them goodnight kisses and hugs. Looking back at it now I probably should have cried over the loss of my parents more then I actually did. I guess I decided that I didn't really need to cry over something I had no control over and that I  would never again have any type of control over my life ever . The virus only effected people over the age of twenty, now to be fair there was a lot of things that could kill everyone at this point in the world we had so many different types of flus there was the swine flu, and the bird flu oh and the Spanish flu though that one was over before I was born. And the black plague had made a comeback as well I lose count over all the things that happened in the history books;  we also had this dumb  virus called covid19 every year people went frantic and bought all the facemasks and gloves they could find. The government even started issuing them every year at the start of flu season which I guess in the long run it turned out to be not a bad idea.
         I was ten when it all started and I remember it like a bad dream ( you know those ones where you wake up screaming and your mom comes running in to tell you it was all a bad dream? Ya those kinds of things but this, this was my life) it comes in bits and pieces most of the time, however what I do remember will scare you. So grab a blanket and cuddle in I'm gonna tell you the time before Greenville resort. 
        All of the children got placed in gated facilities with a pool and a lunch building it was kinda like one of those military bases you see in the movies... what was it oh right the officer and a gentleman or maybe top gun , but we weren't all in groups or tents no we had houses and nice beds to sleep in we had nice bathrooms and bathtubs I loved taking baths with the different bath bombs I was given each month.all of the children age ten and under where separated. Even the boys where kept away from the girls I didn't realize it at the time but they where getting us ready to be adults. The elders would sound the siren when the activity needed to change. At the time I was placed in the camps I was actually terrified of the sirens I mean they where loud and scary.  I would cover my ears and scream when they sounded, but as I got older the sirens weren't the problem, life and the elders where the problem; we will come back to that at a later time.  
            The elders taught us at a young age how to be a mother, we were given babies, toddlers and children younger then us to care for, we had to learn how to keep them alive as well as being taught how to take care of the children we had. And of course we weren't entirely left alone we could go to the elders for help if we didn't know how to do something, my elders name was Helen, she was kind and sweet, her eyes were this greyish blue color and her hair hung in loose red curls around her face, she had freckles over her nose and her lips where as red as a rose.(maybe that was lipstick but oh well) she like many of the other elders wore these green shirts with black pants they also had these green thick cloaks she had to be at least twenty five because you  could see the worry lines in her forehead. To be honest with you I don't know how the elders lived while our parents died and I never really found out the real answer, however  as I got older I hurd the many hundred different rumors there was (the thing about rumors is ( it's only part of the truth). I couldn't really care any less about that what I cared more about was keeping those girls alive ( weird to think of a ten year old having these thoughts, At ten I wasn't supposed to be taking care of a baby, I was just a baby myself. At ten I was supposed to be running threw the tall grass along the lake line, learning how to swim and dancing on my dad's toes. I was supposed to be worrying about school,  however I came to learn that it was my life after the virus  had killed my parents.
       My mom was the first to die she got sick fast while she was pregnant with my baby brother, he didn't live either. The poison turned her eyes green and her skin turned red. I could see the veins turning black soon she started drilling and sweating black goo it wasn't long after that when she died. My dad wanted to kill the government after that.
He talked about it for months before he too started to turn to goo, you see once your skin turned green and your eyes turned red ( much like that poison apple in snow white) you didn't just start Turing to goo after you start oozing the black goo from your eyes,ears,nose, mouth. your bones started melting everything started just turning to goo and your body basically dissolved into a thick green ugly smelly pile of goo, so you see why it was so scary scary to us children at the time. Watching your parents suffer for a few days before you where forced to care for yourself as well as being left orphaned. We kids called it the black goo virus the government called it Green death.
When we got to the camps we where all put in homes. Us that where 10 each had 10 kids to take care of and teach and help learn how to be humans I guess I'm not sure I was only 10 when it all went to hell. Each camp was a different color given to us by the elders. My camp was yellow with kids ranged 2-10 in this camp we learned how to be parents. Then there was the purple camp age range 11-15 that camp we had already been assigned to the male we were going to marry and we were taught how to be a wife, after that it was the green camp those were the 16-18 year olds by that time we had met and married our husband. And we're now living in homes with him my husband's name was Louis and at first I hated him but we will come back to that later. After them we had the 19+ year olds here we were to just be breeders ment to have babies and have them ripped from our arms. By that point you weren't scared of the sirens. The elders didn't scare you. The virus scared us, we didn't know if the elders where gonna give it to us or keep us as breeders. I felt like a caged horse and I wanted to be free. In all reality I guess I never thought about the rebellion that would happen before I was even seventeen but I guess it all makes since and now that I'm older and a parent myself I can finally tell everyone my story.