this was home. (Stray Kids Apocalypse Au)

family

For the first year of the darkness, I was alone. I had sheltered up my old house and had made a stable fort for myself. The neighbourhood I was in was practically untouched, everyone had left the area after the first announcement except for me and Molly. She was sick and had been for a very long time, 7 years to be exact. She had been diagnosed with cancer when she was 5 and has been suffering ever since. I knew she wouldn't make it, it was obvious even before the darkness, even though I knew she wouldn't last, I did everything in my power to protect her.
I did everything for her, I sacrificed myself so she could eat, she meant the world to me.

I didn't cry when she died.

Infact

I didn't feel anything.

I didn't even want to see her after she passed... so I just left.

I grabbed anything important to me and I left her in the empty neighbourhood while I went and searched for somewhere better.

I had been walking for what seemed like weeks and very well could have been, no one payed attention to dates or times anymore, just whether it was dark or light. I hopped from shelter to shelter after staying for a couple of days because I was never able to make myself comfortable so I would keep going. I never ran out of supplies, in fact I always had just enough to last me until I found more, somthing I had never achieved while my sister was around.

I finally found a place that looked quite heavily boarded but ultimately assumed there were no survivors, for obvious reasons, so I went in. Little did I know that when I entered the house, half a dozen guns would be placed on different angles of my head. I just stood there, blank faced and unbothered, if I were going to die I'd rather it be at the hands of a human and not a zombie. Unfortunately they realised that I was infact a human and lowers their weapons. Part of me wanted to act up just so they could shoot me, but I decided not to, besides, there were children present. Infact there was a few, maybe two or three, between either 11 or 12. They looked terrified, it made me sad to see someone around the same age of my sister look at me so scared and horrified, am I really that disgusting?

As they were talking to me I assessed my surroundings, there were 4 people around my age, 1 adult and the 3 kids, that's 8 people. How could anyone survive when they have to provide for 8 people, it's impossible. The people my age were Changbin, Jisung, Seungmin and Ji-min. They were all people I had seen before, Seungmin was a regular at the internet cafe in town, kinda a nerd but nothing too wrong I guess. Jisung and Ji-min were seniors at my highschool, they were highschool sweethearts but not the dumb kind, Jisung was a super talented music producer and Ji-min was a bomb at engineering, both pretty nice. Unfortunately I knew Changbin a little too well, he was In my class and honestly, was pretty fucking rude, I tried my best to avoid him but I guess my luck had run out. I had never met the youngest and assumed they were siblings of the older ones, unfortunately that wasn't the case, Yeongmin and Dawn were twins, Both were abandoned by their parents as soon as the darkness struck, what pieces of shit huh, like who the fuck leaves their 12 year old kids alone in the middle of the end of the world. Anyway, Jihoon was the youngest, he was 11 when I met him, apparently his mother was apart of the group but they never really explained what happened to her, still haven't. Last but not least, Brodie. Now Brodie seemed like a redneck at first, but he was and still is one of the kindest men I know, one of the only people in the group I got on with super well at the beginning. He was amazing.

Its hard thinking that these people that I've spent years with were once strangers and people I never thought I would ever interact with, I thought I was going to be alone, especially after the darkness. I never thought I could feel this secure and this at home with a group of people. I've been with them for a couple years, people have come and gone through time, but we have always stayed together no matter what, and I could never ask for a better family.