I Don't Want to be Alone
by: AmberJade McCracken (me silly!)

I can't believe it. I wanted for so long to be alone, and now as I walk the deserted halls of what used to be my home, I regret it. The silence is deafening, the stench is awful. Outside is worse. In my mind I pictured an empty world where everyone was just gone. Just not there, vanished. I never planned on where the bodies of all the lost would go. They still lay where the fell. It all happened in just a moment I guess. Between one breath and the next. I don't know for sure, I was asleep. It couldn't have been instant though because there are bodies in the road, the ends of there fingers bloody where they clawed at the hot asphalt. It must have been painful. I don't know why I was spared. I wish I hadn't been. I miss them all so much. I don't want to be alone.
"I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE!" The scream reverberates off of the nearest houses. I never knew there was an echo. It's been so long since I've screamed. "I don't want to be alone...Please, someone."