Hate

February 4th 3025 10:30

So I wake and a huge alert pops on my phone and it says “WARNING WARNING NEW VIRUS IS OUT PEOPLE ARE BECOMING EVIL AND KILLING EACH OTHER SAVE YOURSELVES!!!” I pop out of bed so sacred and thinking about what is going on, am I going to die is my family okay. To keep myself sane I must write about my journey I must remember everything that has happened, I need to keep all this knowledge about hatred and how people act towards it and how I can survive this virus. Before I forget anything Hate stands for Horrible Angst Towards Everything and this virus is spread by air. I know this because the news told me and before we went to sleep my mom open the windows so we don’t use the air conditioners and I know I am just rambling but I must because the virus reached my family and I locked myself into the room and I just need to write everything down that I must remember.

FEB 4TH 3025 11.30

Dear Astrid,

I’ve been locked in this room for about an hour and I need to see my family to see if they are okay. I finally walk out of my room and the people that I’ve seen are not my family my brothers were all shades of red and their veins pop out and they gritted their teeth and had a thirst for blood. As soon as they saw me down the hall they looked at me and glared. There was so much hate in their eyes and I even wondered to myself if these are the true forms that they have been holding in. My mom and dad looked the same way but their eyes were completely black. I felt like I was going to die and I had no escape I need to make a plan and fast. Okay Astrid stop writing and figure something out, what can I do and how? As I thought of that question I hear a huge BAM as if they broke the door down. No, it was two big men with masks and protective gear from head to toe. My first instinct was to hide in the closet and hold my breath until they leave but eventually, they found me.

FEB 5th 3025 5:00

Dear Astrid,

These people shot my family killing all of them and told me “It’s for their good there's no turning back”. Looking at my family dead on the ground I kept thinking am I going to die too…. and before I knew it the water was falling from my eyes and there was this pain in my heart that I couldn’t control. Then they held me in a dark and scary room for a day I believe it's about 4 or 5 am. Why would they hold me for so long? I have my journal back so I’m writing as much as I can before they take it away from me again. I am in a jail cell at a very old prison.

In this abandoned jail Astrid is tested on the virus Hatred, she starts to get these mood swings and begins to shout out one letter Z. No form of English could escape her mouth the blank stare on her face symbolized her mood. She was stuck and could get out. Alone, Isolated, Afraid and Angry at the world was what she was feeling she could only keep her thoughts to herself. Thinking about her diary and all the things she wanted to write in it. Astrid felt weak and wanting to die and she knew in her heart that death was the solution.''BOOM!" The door pushed back a tall figure came through it he seems to be running she can hear the vibration of the ground shaking. He stops and looks at Astrid picking her up and holding on to her with all his might he and Astrid run and run and run...

Astrid looks up and realizes that she is no longer in that dark and scary room "who are you" Astrid says with a faint voice The boy looks at her and says ''Cha Beom Seok''. He's a Korean boy from Busan. He explained to Astrid that he was in the shower when the outbreak happened and like her, he was taken to the isolated prison.

Dear Astrid,

February 8th 3024

I met a boy from Korea named Beom Seok he's tall, quiet and handsome. He saved me from those evil people I'm really thankful and grateful for him. Even though I don't know him I feel a connection towards him,