2 days, 2 weeks, 1 month, 1 year
Nov 19, 2025
Day 1, The day it broke out.
Tuesday night, I was peacefully getting ready for bed when I heard these ear screeching sirens. There was a new disease called MSI (mineralcis SI).
I drove to the biggest shop I knew, trapped in traffic. When I eventually got there, almost half the shop was gone. I only got a few tins of beans and a loaf of bread. Everyone in panic looting the remains.
Then, when I got home I collapsed on the floor.
Day 2, It all went down.
Infected's at my door. I had to escape, quickly. I packed a bag including: blankets, lots of food, a lighter, a hair brush, a bobble and lots of warm clothes for my journey.
On my way out, I spotted a sharp stick to protect myself with and I ended up sleeping in an abandoned hut in the valley.
Week 1, Many people dead.
I didn’t have many supplies left. I had to loot the infected homes in a rush for food.
I charged through the filthy snickets rushing home. I took a wrong turn and got lost in deep woods but I eventually found a path. I decided to walk through but it just kept going and going for hours until I eventually found an exit into a large city.
On a large bin I found a small, ripped paper that said on it, "Chemi?” but what could that mean? Or are there more pieces of paper?
The same week I found a hideout. I decided to organise it and clean it up and there was also a bed I could sleep on.
Underneath the bed, there was another piece of paper. While this time it had some writing on it which said , "Don't go in the hall, it's not safe”.
I thought to myself “What hall?” but I just ignored it went to sleep.
Week 2, Burn burn, burn.
With a burst to be warm I found a bin full of rubbish and grabbed my lighter out of my pocket and watched as the blazing fire danced around. Ashes flying everywhere as it eventually went out.
I ran back to my hut only this time something was in there. I grabbed my branch and lunged at the door. It swung open exposing whatever was in there.
“AAAH” someone screamed.
What are you doing in my house!" I screamed.
"I thought an infested lived here! The girl said
“What's your name?!" I asked.
She replied, "Velvet".
"My name’s Velvet. You are?”
"Willow", I then made a bed for her with some blankets. It was pretty dark so we went to sleep.
Month 1, Lack of food.
We had to go hunting for food but Velvet has found some more of those papers which connected.
We found some rabbits and I found an arrow to kill them with. There was about 10 but we only caught 3 which would last a couple of days. We de-furred and cooked one, it wasn't the best but better than nothing.
By the burn bin there was a swarm of infected so me and Velvet ran for a full 5 minutes to get away.
I saw my old home, sobbing because I was ripped to shreds.
We went back and I calmed down.
Year 1, The incident.
Me and Velvet ran across rooftops and found another paper. We then had a list of items. Could this be the cure? We rushed finding all the ingredients, only missing one from the last paper, so we went exploring.
We found the last piece but we got infected as we made the cure and only had enough for one of us.
Velvet offered me, but I said no.
Then Velvet tipped the cure in my mouth and ran off.
I made a more of the cure then eventually the world became normal again.
Published with permission of Foxhill Primary School
