The Here and Now

We meet V in 2013, she takes us back to Decemember 2012 and fills us in on why she writing a journal and all the events that have led to the present moment.

March 4, 2013

 

 Welcome to My journal! You may be thinking you have stumbled across some very happy little girls journal..... You are wrong. I know the cover is pink and it used to be sparkly too, but at the end of the world who can be choosy??!? Not me. Im writing this journal as much to entertain you the reader on your boring days and nights as I am to inform you of the things I have learned in my own journey. Well Start of with polite introductions then move on to the real story playing out here.

 

 My name is Veronica, most people just call me V now. No, everyone calls me V now. I turned 25 in the weeks before the "apocalypse" happened. Only a quater of a century old and I get to experience the end of the world. Great! I was living in a small city outside of the city of Detroit Michigan. In case you dont know where that is raise your right hand out with the palm turned towards your face. Now on the thumb side of that hand half way between the tip of your thumb and the bottom of your hand is where Detroit is. -Side note, Anyone that has lived in MI has used their hand to show where they live, we are special in that way!- 

 

 The events I am going to fill you in on started happening a few months back so before we get to all the juicy details Ill fill you in on myself and introduce an important person to me and to my survival.

 

 Ill be quick with the early years..... Just given you some insight to me and giving me the knowledge that someone out there knows something about me. I am an only child to two loving parents, Matt and Elizabeth, both now presumed deceased. They spoiled me rotten. Once I got into my teenage years I went through the normal rebellious stage. I partied, experimented with boys and drugs and everything inbetween. My parents stayed by my side, continuing the rotten spoiling. At the age of good ole 18 I decided I could handle life on my own and set out with my then boyfriend to get an apartment. No surprise when 6 months later I was looking for my Own place. I moved out and on, got my own apartment and found a good new boyfriend, Adam. We made a good team, a good couple and we soon got engaged. Everyone was thrilled.

 

 Around this same time I returned to community college and got a Property Manager Certificate and a Marketing and Business Management Associated Degree. I applied and landed the position of Assistant Property Manager for the apartment complex we were living at. Adam had been a bar bouncer for quite a few years and just did not enjoy it anymore. The company, our apartment complex was hiring for a maintenance technition, I put in a word or two for him and he got the job.

 

 While I was busy with paperwork and people pleasing Adam was busy learning invauluable tools and skills for our future. Once we settled down a bit we began to plan our wedding only taking time out to enjoy or birthday week, end of November and beginning of Decemember.

 

 Now in the last year or so we had heard All of the "The world is going to end On 12/21/12...." "Apocalypse is near" craziness, We just never believed. We enjoyed ourselfs on our birthday week not thinking for one minute about any of those "warnings". Oh how wrong we were.... Less then 4 weeks later, our world had ended. A new ugly, infested, dangerous and hungry world ready to take over.

 

 This is mine survival story. Please pass this journal on when your down reading it. It could save a life or two.

 

Thank You        V

 

 

Author's Note

Hey Everyone! This is my first attempt at writing a full story. I would like to be able to construct a more realistic response to a zombie apocalypse and I hope that is what I am accomplishing. Being new to this I would love to get Pos/Neg feedback about the characters are they defined enough? Can you relate to their reactions? Does the storyline seems more realistic then other zombie stories??
Now I am not done writing the whole story yet so I will keep on posting as I finish!!
Thanks everyone! Have a great read!!

Reviews

[ffw1985]

From what I have read here, I think it is awesome, a great read. You have kept and held my interest in your story. This does seem very realistic and I can't wait to read more of your entries to this story. A very well done job on this one.

[VikkiV]

Thank u so much! Im still kinda apprehensive to put my writing up. I thought maybe the begining was alittle to slow! I appreciate it!

[ffw1985]

You are so welcome. I felt awkward about putting my work up too. I have had 9 views since last night and no one has took the time to review mine, that makes me feel like my writing is either really boring or needs a lot of work. I didn't think the beginning was slow at all. Remember, we are our own worst critics, but I wouldn't change a thing. I thought the beginning was perfect.