I used to write these when I was younger. I stopped when Mama died of cancer when we were just girls. I was only ten when she passed away. After she passed on it was just abi, daddy and I. She stepped up into that mom role for me, helped me brush my hair and pick out clothes. She taught me all the things I needed to know growing up, periods, puberty, sex, boys. Things Daddy was never comfortable with. Abi looks a lot like our mama did. She is pretty like her and brave. She beat up the first girl that picked on me in school, abi did.. She is always been the tougher one. I guess that came with having to protect me and help raise me with daddy. She took it harder when daddy die. She was the one to kill him. He went to the hospital with a bad flu, he came home really sick, he couldn’t keep anything down, his fever ran really high and he had a bad scratch across his arm. Abi did the best she could till he well.. died.. then he turned.. he tried to attack us. He was no longer daddy then.. he was a, well Monster. Abi fought him off, she.. stabbed him in the head.. then.. She went a bit nuts her self and cut out his heart.. I ran. I went past Mrs. Johnson house and then grady’s and just kept running. I got lost in the city cut off by a heard of walkers and couldn’t turn back.

I met band of people told me to stick with them and they would protect me. That wasn’t the case. They took me farther from home. They used me how the men wanted to, and the women hated me. Made me do all the icky jobs. One night while they slept, I ran.. the main man who called me “his” tried to get me, scratched my face and said no one would want used goods. I never looked back, that is when I ended up in the city. I met jake there. He took me under his wing and took care of me. I learned to find things I needed.. important things. Learned to trade and make deals. He watched me spread my wings and fly.. then I flew away..

We came to the island soon after we met in the city, we heard there was people there and a possible cure from a doctor we ran into. So we went. I stuck by his side as long as I could. I took over the empty hard ware store and started to fill the shelves. I found an empty apartment, made it into a little home for us. But, things went sour and we went out different ways.

Soon after I learned to be alone, I was standing outside the shop one night eating a twinkie. Man how I miss those things, then.. abi.. Like a freaking angel came walking up.. I thought I was in heaven, My sister and a twinkie! We hugged and she showed me her place, we haven’t been apart since. Running the store, getting things fixed, water being clean, having ice.. I even have a pet Rat.. his name Is tauit.. Do.. You think one day.. life will ever be back to normal? They will find a cure? Now I have put down what has happened I will write more when I find more paper.. nomoreroom to write things…

Julia Wolfe . 2/26/2015