TWO
Letters to nobody

June 16, 2023

Nobody,

You've read my saddest, darkest thoughts so I don't think this one would even matter to you anymore. After all, you're just a nobody. Ha, see what I did there? I can even joke still. 

Today, we found an RV set up in the woods along with two tents and a picnic table. If you have seen it, you would have thought that everything wasn't so bad after all, that some places here on earth would still be normal. The scenery was just so perfect. The vehicle was parked near the lake that remained calm despite everything that had happened. The tents didn't look like they were even touched at all. It made us hope that maybe some people survived like we did.

So I carried Hana in my arms and took her inside. All the hope that we had to see normal again was shattered before I stepped both feet into the RV. Hana screamed and buried her face in my shoulder when she saw a man seated in the driver's seat. His neck was twisted almost at a 180-degree angle. No human could ever survive that kind of injury and yet, there he was, staring back at us while his hands were twitching. He was trying to get out of the seat but his seatbelt prevented him to. Thank god for seatbelts.

I let Hana down and walked towards the lake and told her to stay there. She nodded and her hair bounced along. It's longer now and that made her look like she's already eight years old even though she was just five. In four days, she would turn six and I don't have a single idea how we can celebrate something at times like this. I kissed her forehead and went back to the van.

I took out the gun that I stole from a military man who was dead on the road. I have no idea what kind of gun it was but it had a silencer. And a silencer comes in handy at times like this. We still don't know what was happening to the people but they are drawn to sounds. They will attack and they will not spare anything. When I stepped inside the vehicle, the driver tried desperately t