tw: mention of suicide, cannibalism, kissing, rape
i was having a sleepover but mom grounded me from being involved in the sleepover so while all my friends had fun in my room i was forced to sleep on the couch in the living room upstairs
in the middle of the night two friends came into said living room to softly practice spanish for class the following monday.............. i woke up from it and pretended not to notice because then it would be Awkward
both friends agreed that it was probably a bad idea to be practicing spanish around me while i was sleeping. one of the friends came over and gave me a kiss on the forehead before exiting the living room
i woke up and had breakfast with said friends
i went to find my mom because i hadn't seen her in awhile and found her dead in her room. she'd committed suicide, it looked like, and on the tv (which was on) it showed that surprise surprise the fucking apocalypse had begun - all my friends and i decided it was best to pack up everything that we had and leave to a safe spot i knew in the country (reason being: humans began raiding others' houses because we're a Greedy and Desperate species. so, we didn’t want to be in a house when someone came to raid it)
flash to a few years later and i'm alone! all my friends have died or abandoned me
i'm hiking in the woods with my chicken (yes, chicken is still alive) and i stumble across a pair of glasses with said chicken. my prescription went out awhile ago, so i pick them up to see if they make my sight any better.
they do not. they're worse
i find a rusty, abandoned car on a hill overlooking a valley. i decided to sleep in it and make camp
there was a lot of developing plot of me building my little base there and gathering supplies and shit but memory is a bitch so skip ahead to the middle of the night in said car, weeks later
... and there's a boy outside. he’s my age
i freak out (and chicken starts running amok in the car) and without rolling down the window i ask him how he found me and what he wants
he says he followed the path up the hill..... now, magically my brain has added in this perfect dirt path from the treeline of the opposite hill that swoops down into the valley and alllll the way over to my hill
he apparently didn't want any trouble but when he asked if i could unlock the doors and let him in i deadass said: "...this feels a little too rape-y."
now don't ask me how the rest of the conversation went but SOMEHOW he convinced me to unlock the doors and let him sleep in the back. i didn't sleep much the rest of that night, but he sure did. also, my chicken loved him
now flash forward a few weeks because brains are a bitch and sometimes do that without warning.... we were still together and apparently, we'd had some Serious Bonding because we were sticking together like a team, apparently? friends, dare i say?
we were hiking around looking for some sort of supply that i now cannot recall,, but it was some sort of supply
we were actually chilling and having fun while doing it and throwing back and forth playful banter. and then we started talking about our lives before all of it had gone Down which was... very, very nice, i will not lie
we went back to the hill and our little base and made some food later on when the sun was beginning to set
i know there were more conversations but i cannot remember what they were of.... anyway, um, my chicken had apparently learned that if it ran away from us it didn't get food so it could now hang outside
i hopped into the car to stargaze through the sun roof with the boy. i was in the driver's, he was in the passenger's
we ended up talking again, but this time it was more whispering, even though no one was around and somehow (i really, really don't remember what it was that he said and that makes me sad) we ended up leaning over and kissing each other.
it was kind of that Well Shit moment when we both pulled back and we just... deadass sat there for a few good seconds
then he reached over and placed one of his hands on my hips and guided me over the compartment and into his lap annnd cue making out
boy was READY to risk it all because in the middle of kissing my neck he reached down and twisted the lever thing so that the seat laid back and THEN in the middle of smiling i noticed something in the distance through the car window, on that path that he had come along all those weeks before
it was a person. running towards us. context as to why this was scary: we had fucking DESTROYED the planet and there were little to zero natural resources (i don't even KNOW how him and i found food - even the "forest" and valley we were in was barren and looked scorched. nothing was alive) so, um, as a result, since humans were very desperate that had been a LARGE amount of people that had been rumored to turn to cannibalism to survive
i'm sorry, but i didn't even bother to grab my chicken - i pushed the boy back to stop him kissing and scrambled out of his lap and yelled at him what was happening. we locked all the doors and i tried to fumble around to see if there was a key (i'd never looked and i'd never tried to start it)
the man on the path somehow reached us and started to try to smash our windows in! he was right fucking next to my face!
i tore into the panel underneath the steering wheel like they do in movies and tried to hotwire the thing
we drove away and i woke up