Thrive

Chapter 1

Riley Scott was just your average teenage girl. She had friends, good grades, and was just about to finally get out of the stuffy middle school in Cauds. But June 9th of 2016, the shit hit the fan. And it hit hard.

It was a sunny, Friday afternoon and I had just gotten off the bus from school. The power in the entire city of Cauds had gone out. I had no idea what was going on, my parents were at work and my calls weren't getting through. Then I saw them. The people. It looked like they had just got out of the bar, completely hammered drunk. I simply just walked up to them, and they growled and limped over to me. "What the hell are you?" I said out loud, confused.

I looked at the cemetery across the street. The thought swam through my mind. These things aren't alive, are they?
I made my way over the the newest grave. One of the things surfaced out of the ground and tried to grab me. This dead person just emerged from its grave and tried to bite a chunk on my arm off. But I don't know why.

But these things are dead. They're all dead.

Screw it, I need to get out of here. Both my parents are working out of Green Bay, and that's where all the dead ones will be, the same place as the living ones. The dead ones, it gives me chills to say. I run home. I need to head north. I can't stay where all the people are, I think. I grab my backpack, fill it with all the canned food I could manage to bring, corn, beans, peaches, pears, everything. I grabbed some water, two bottles of it. Extra clothes, first aid, along with tampons and pads. I went to the garage and grabbed a good, sturdy hunting knife that my dad keeps supposedly "hidden" in the cabinets. I also grabbed a small pistol with a couple rounds of bullets. I ran inside the house, wrote out a note the read,

            Mom, Dad,

                      I love you. I have to leave. It's not safe. I'll be okay. I hope I'll see you again someday. Take good care of each other and stay out of the city's. I'm going north.
                         I love you, xoxo,
                                       Riley

And then I hopped on my bike and I was off.

----------------------------------------- a/n
Hello! My name is Katie and I LOVE TWD!
This isn't so much a fanfiction, just a story about Riley and the apocalypse.
I hope you enjoyed and I'm sorry this chapter was so short, I thought it was a good spot to end at. I will post more chapters, and longer chapters. I thought you could get to know Riley just a bit in this one. Okay, enough with my blabs.
Thanks for reading and voting! :)