𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑. julianny and your muse were together before the outbreak that spread almost a year ago. they were separated early on, and she's long since assumed they were dead. her small group, including someone she's gotten close to, land at a gated community that's living almost as if nothing changed. how and why your muse landed there is utp, but julianny is surprised to see them again, for more reasons than one.
her heart kicked rapidly beneath her ribs, the steadying hand at the small of her back doing little to settle her nerves. she couldn't believe the layout before her, how every white picket fence sat perfectly kept, how children giggled and not a single person looked like they'd ever skipped a shower.
it was unnerving in a way, how the people behind the walls seemed untouched by the darkness outside of them. angered flushed beneath her skin, but it was replaced with something else in an instant. without warning, she pulled away from the other's touch and moved forward, only stopping a few feet shy of the person she'd lost almost a year earlier. "tell me i'm not seeing things," she demanded quietly, her heart kicking out of pace for a hundred different reasons now.
