hello, my name is Colton, and I was a sophomore in high school, I say was because high school is not my main priority right now, the only thing I care about is surviving until tomorrow. 

the world has grown tense over the past few years, but China finally snapped, they sent all of their nukes to the U.S. and then it started a chain reaction, before we knew it our world was gone, there were so many nukes, and no one was prepared...

My entire family died during the first attack, I was lucky, I was in the store when it happened, and the cashier took me to the basement, but it was too late for him, and we were hit, the store went down fast, and he did not make it out the basement barely stayed up, but I was alive.

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I made my way out of the rubble, I saw the cashier, his intestines were spread over the giant brick that fell on him, he was still alive, he begged me to help him but we both knew it was too late, I could tell he was in pain, I saw a gun from what used to be in the desk, in case he was robed, I took the gun and checked the chamber, 6 bullets.

My dad had taken me to the shooting range a few times, so I at least knew how it worked, but instead of a target, it would be a human, the only thing that made me do it was the look on his face, I knew he wanted to end his suffering, sadly he could not tell me as his neck was cut open, but I knew what I had to do...

BANG!

I walked out of that rubble into the open world, the air was red with dust, and there was destruction everywhere, I wiped the blood off my face, I was on my own now.