The day began like every other day. I woke up and got ready to leave out for the day. I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and brushed my hair. After eating breakfast I left out the door. It was supposed to be a warm day so I was gonna go for a walk. After about 10 minutes into the walk it got very hot. I had to stop to catch my breath. Gasping for air my phone buzzed. There was a heat advisory of 120° and rising. I tried to take one step and collapsed….
Two days later I came too and looked around me. There wasn't a single soul in sight. Everything looked weird. I tried turning my phone on but it was completely dead. As I walked back home I noticed the Vegetation grew rapidly. There were even plants I've never seen before. Power lines have fallen and cars stalled in the roads. Peaking into the car I could see a dried up looking body. Taking a moment to process what's going on I dropped to the ground as I noticed there were corpses everywhere. Corpses of not only humans but animals as well. Questions quickly popped into my head. What happened to everyone. How did I survive? Am I all alone in this world? I started having a mental breakdown. Sitting on the side of the road I sob. I sat for hours and when I finally got up I felt empty inside. Walking the streets aimlessly. I walked until my feet became sore. While walking I found a dog. It was also alone and was starving. I walked to the dod and tried petting it and it tried to bite me. I moved my hand away just in time and went in to rub it again. This time it was more accepting and let me pet him. The sun began setting so I got up and saw a store that looked to be intact. When entering it looked as if no one had been in it. Luckily they had backpacks so I took one and put as much food as I could in it. I also grabbed some dog food and toys. I went to the back of the store to look in the freezer for a drink and noticed a foot around the corner. Laying on the ground were two girls.I thought they were dead so I was going to see if they had anything valuable. When I got closer I could see her chest move very slightly. I poured a small cap full of water into one of the girls' mouths. She woke up choking because I didn't know anything about helping people who passed out. When she came too she looked over at what I assumed to be a close friend of hers. She began shaking the second girl while crying. The second girl woke but was very weak. I offered them water and they thanked me even though we were in a store full of it. I explained to them as best as I could about the situation. We all came to the conclusion that we should stick together. We began walking when I remembered I had a gf and I ran as fast as I could to her house. I knew she would be there because it's the one day she got a break and she used it to read. When I got there though it was empty. There was nothing, not even a body. I hoped that she was ok. She just woke up before me and is looking for me. We walked from house to house looking for useful things and survivors. While walking I asked their names. The first one who is short, has black hair and is very goofy name is Halo. The second who is also short but has dyed blue hair and wears glasses was named Moon. I told them my name is Toni. While searching it seemed like we were the only ones. We found matches and canned food which was good. When we got to the end of the street we gasped. It was like a different planet. The trees were humongous. I decided to call it the deep forest. While walking through the forest we found a stump of a tree that was the size of a house and seemed to be lifted out of the ground a bit. It had a huge space under it and we could live in it. I know you're wondering why not just live in an empty house but if we do, others will find us and knowing humans won't always be a good thing. Mostly since finding people is rare men will be trying to have girls to rape. We sat our bags of stuff down and started a fire where there was a patch of dirt. It was good and void of any vegetation. It was easy because we had matches but I knew we would have to learn to do it the old fashion way because matches are limited. Right now tho the fire is needed asap. Using the fire I made beans so we would have something on our stomachs. When I turned around, Halo and Moon were kissing. So I guess they are more than close friends. I smiled and turned back around. After we ate we went to gather the huge leaves from the trees. Using them we made a cover over the hole under the tree and we used some to put on the ground to make it softer and so we didn't have to lay on dirt. We would work on it more in the morning but after the long day of walking I'm exhausted and fall asleep. The next day I heard Halo scream and run outside. Some guy with a gun was threatening us to give him food. Me thinking quickly said the only food we have is the leaves from the trees. And stated they are very edible. He looked at us crazily then looked around and noticed he was lost. He didn't know which way he came from. He asked if he could stick around until he learned his way. I didn't trust him yet so I told him that he would have to live in another tree stump similar to ours but smaller. He agreed and went to set up hastily. I decided to use some broken sticks and leave to make a wall so that halo and moon could have privacy. I also weaved together a big basket because we needed somewhere to store our food. I also decided to build a fence because we didn't know anything about this world. I sat some dog food outside near the entrance for rex. The name I gave the stray dog I found. Building the fence wasn't very hard because the sticks from the trees were huge so it was just dragging them to the base that was the problem. No one here has any architecture skills so when we finished it looked like complete garbage. There was a loud bang and the sky grew dark. Bright flashes crossed the sky. The thundering sound that shook the ground. We ran for shelter. It was a storm. A very large storm that we knew nothing about. With every flash of light the ground shook. Then there was a loud crash. In my mind I thought that the stump got hit by lightning. I was worried though because it was raining and the stump was too moist. I decided sleep is the best course of action because there isn't anything else we could do at the time being.