BEGINS BOOK ONE:

March 13th Hi! My name is Lydia. I’ve never written a journal or kept a diary before. We’re all here in this cave. A cave, yes, we’re living in a cave. I can’t believe it! There are no showers. No toilets. No kitchen. Ha! We’re eating out of cans. It’s about as hard as it could be. I don’t know how cave men did it. Or cave women. We’re all writing these journals to leave them behind in case someone comes after we, or some of us, leave. I might not ‘Cause I’m sort of with Tom right now and he doesn’t want to go. There are six of us; Mike, Tom, Bob, Janet, Me and a girl named Candace too. We’re all stuck here until spring, I guess. I guess that you know all about the world ending, or whatever it did. We don’t know. I don’t know. Not really anyway, but, hopefully we’ll get everything fixed up pretty soon. I mean, a lot of stuff is F’d up, you know? But, like, it could get fixed up eventually. I had a boyfriend in the old world. His name was Paul, but I don’t know where he went. His apartment was gone. The whole street he lived on was gone. So, I don’t know. It made me feel really bad. Hopefully this will be over really soon. We have, like, some old trucks now to drive around. We used to have to walk everywhere. That sucked. The trucks are really old. Like, Shit boxes as Paul would’ve said, but at least we’re not walking, right? Paul had an old shit box truck. These trucks are even older. If we break down we can’t call A.A.A.. Ha Ha! I don’t really know what else to write in here. I’ll write other stuff down too though. … Oh, I’m almost seventeen… March 15th Lydia is gone. They took her. I can’t believe it, it’s like a nightmare. I can’t deal with it. I won’t forget it. Tom. *

* Lydia was killed in Book one so there are no other diary entries for her. Tom read over her journal and added his own comment at the end, There may have been more to Lydia's Diary, in fact I suspect there was and for whatever reason Tom took it. We may never know for sure...