So that was it.

I was on my own,

just me and my girl.

I had a little money left in my savings

from all the checks my parents sent

when I was young.

My grandparents never used them,

they just put them in saving account for me.

And I never touched it.

I guess because I always had a feeling

that something like this would happen someday.

Oh well.

We were happy and maybe a little scared.

We were kids out just out of high school.

We just really didn't know what to do.

I got a job at a coffee shop.

Emily got a job at a pet shop.

I mean, we weren't making a lot of money,

but we were surviving