Love In The Dead Days

The Happy Ending

Last month, Ethan proposed to me.

Not in normal place like restaurant or beach. He proposed inside that abandoned cafeteria where we fell in love during zombie outbreak. He cleaned the whole place, painted it, put flowers, lights, balloons, and music. He made it beautiful, not scary again.

He knelt down with a diamond ring that cost $5000 from our business money and said, "Isabella Kim, you loved me when I was human, you loved me when I was zombie, you came back for me when everyone thought I was dead, you brought me back to life. Will you marry me and be my wife forever? Will you let me love you for the rest of my life? Will you cook for me forever?"

I said YES and cried and hugged him. All our friends who were there - Chloe, Maya, Sophie who survived actually - shouted and clapped and cried.

We are getting married in December this year. After wedding, we will travel to Korea, America, and Europe together to explore the world. Because I love exploring when I travel, you know.

Our story started with dead days, with horror, with biting, with blood, with darkness, with fear. But it ended with love. Real love that survived virus, survived death, survived one year of being zombie, survived everything.

If love can survive zombie apocalypse, love can survive anything in this world - poverty, distance, family problem, anything.

Ethan always tells me, "You saved me twice - first time you saved me from being lonely in class when no one talked to me, second time you saved me from being zombie forever when you came back to the factory for me."

And I tell him, "You saved me first. You saved me from death in that dorm. You are my hero."

We are now happy, rich, free and independent. No one controls us. We control our own life. We forgave everyone who hurt us. We live in peace and love.

This is our story - LOVE IN THE DEAD DAYS.

*THE END*