The days start to blend together and the world is going to blow up the rest of humanity. I know it's not a great starter, but in the year 2026 it is how life is. Recently I came across this beautiful flower 'the Zinnia', and that's where your name surfaced. I'd love to show you them one day if the world isn't destroyed too badly. I'm not sure if you'll get to meet your 3 uncles and 6 aunts or even your 6 grandparents, but just know they love you just as much as your father did before the virus took him too. I miss him very much along with the rest of the world, but it's up to us now.
It's been 3 months of walking with you alone trying to search for others alive. It all started when me and your father moved to Florida, the Sunshine state or so it was at some point of time in 2021. We were both searching for new jobs, but in the process of wanting a bundle of joy of our own along with our new beginnings together. The week we both found jobs we were great full to find out we were going to have you. Your father was working out in the ocean for this huge company trying to help out the world with cleaning the grounds for the people to get ready for construction to start to make the ocean a place for people to live from now on.
The water started to rise rapidly without warning one day and your father's job called for everyone to work over time and together to get it all done quickly, but that ended up being to chaos for any order. Everyone was rushing and it was overcrowded everywhere even down in the ocean where your dad spent most of his time. Whenever your father came home he was always stressed out, but exhausted as well, so he would eat dinner and go to bed with you and me as I played in his hair each night as he fell asleep. Most mornings they were called in super early so I'd wake up alone most days missing when life was simpler with him when we were just getting together as kids.
Your dad and I had met in secondary/ junior high school just young and not knowing what love was, I knew he was the only one I wanted, but he didn't know that until years later we became young adults and experienced with life in our own ways that we both hope you never have to go through in this life we gave you. I wish you got the chance to meet him and learn through his style of teaching, it was a lot better than mine would ever be alone.
One night he never came home from work, but it was a huge storm coming through and I tried to get through to his job but no one answered so I turned on the news but as soon as I did the whole building shook for a few seconds and I felt a gust of strong wind through the window that broke along with the rest in our home and the others all over the state. The power went out everywhere, but thankfully for how your dad thinks to have several backup generators for us even though I told him it wasn't necessary. Just I seen I was wrong, especially being the only place in miles with energy and light.
I was terrified and extremely more worried for your father because he was nowhere I could reach him, and for you as well I was barely hitting the 3rd month mark with you and I needed him to come home to us. As the storm passed and the sun came up I packed up a few things I was still able to carry and went out searching for others only to find out everyone was dead with some degree of burnt part on them but it was strange because it was on all people but from a certain angle coming from a place off in the distance.
I tried to check myself but I was perfectly fine with no burn marks anywhere on me. I followed where the marks went until I made it to where he works and my heart dropped and I ran in to find just bits and pieces of people instead of actual bodies. I had no idea what I was looking for until I saw the room blown up with smoke still coming from that explosion which I had thought was very strong wind during the storm last night.
