Epilogue

                                    

                                          

Two years later...
"How's diner going?" Ruth asked Forest who was busy boiling potatoes in a pot while Ruth made tea. Forest was the one who usually did all the cooking, last time Ruth tried to cook she nearly burnt our small wooden cabin down. 
"It's nearly made, what about Willow and Kenji, are they okay?". He asked.
Ruth peered out the small window. She laughed softly. 
"She making Kenji spin her around again.". 
"Seems like she is still on board with being a ballerina when she is older.". 
Ruth laughed. 
"Seems like it? Ever since I told her that I had done ballet when I was six like her she has been nonstop talking about it to me." Said Ruth. 
"Oh on Monday her school is having a talent show, we can't miss that." Forest reminded her. "Kenji isn't going to be too happy about that..".
"Spin me again Kenji!" I shouted. "If you keep twirling around like that your going to get dizzy. And besides you might fall the snow is slippery.". 
"But ballerinas twirl around!" I complained. 
"Not all day.". Kenji was such a know it all. 
Just because he was fourteen now doesn't mean he is right, well that's what Forest told me last time he tried to convince me that there were 900 letters in the alphabet. I have started school now and I can finally read! And write a bit. A lot has changed. Forest, Ruth, Kenji and I all live in the same house. Kenji and I share a room, which isn't always fun. So do Ruth and Forest. They have a huge bed that I always get in trouble for jumping on. Sadly Ruth and Forest are still a couple, which Kenji and I can agree is still disgusting. That's really the only thing we can agree on. There also aren't any zombies around where we live anymore. Usually, a zombie might make its way into our small village once every couple of months but the police alway kill it. 
Oh and another thing... I have sadly realised that my mother is probably dead... I cried a lot when we first arrived here. We all did. Not because we were sad we have a house now or that the zombies were gone, it was because everything hit me, all at once. It was like I just realised everything that happened. Re-living it all over again. 
Ruth said it was because we weren't in 'survival mode anymore. Back when we were in 'survival mode' we didn't have time to process what was happening or let any emotions out. So when we did have time to process our emotions, they all came out at once. 
But we are okay now. I still sometimes cry and have nightmares of the day I had to leave my mother or zombies killing us but Ruth and Forest have been bringing Kenji and me to a lady who makes us talk about how we feel and makes me talk about my nightmares and my mother which usually make me cry but Forest said that's the lady's job. I think it's called a therapist. 
But I am much happier now. We all are. 
I think we are going to be okay.
The end.




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