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I absolutely hate summer. In all complete honesty, that one is the season I despise the most. You can get angry all you want, but nothing, I repeat ? nothing ? shall stop me from complaining about the sun. I have never understood sunbathing. The whole procedure, to me at least, does not make any sense. I see it as people lying on their backs waiting for the sun to make them crispier and, for some reason, darker. You cannot watch anything on your phone, read a book, while you are facing the sun because you will burn your eyes. Even if you are positioned on your stomach, you face is in the sand. I don?t want to go off about how dangerous sun bathing is, at the very least, in terms of skin burns and maybe cancer. Wanting to fry in the burning light for some social acceptance appears to be silly and worthless, but people are free to spend their time however they enjoy, as long as it does not harm third parties.

Summer is just extremely awkward. It is the only time of the year everyone finds acceptable to be half naked outside. I am all hands in for the body positivity. The issue I have is hypocrisy towards other seasons, when it is not as welcomed to not wear any clothes apart from bathing suits, or sometimes none of those either. I will never understand, why elderly German women find it acceptable to walk around topless on family resorts. I am in love with the concept of freeing the nipple, but why is a certain category more privileged here? I wouldn?t say that I am jealous of the society, who allows themselves to wear revealing clothes, however, maybe just a little.

For as much as I can recall of my childhood, I very rarely played in the sun. When I did go out with friends in the summer, I would always feel; sick afterwards. At first, my mother suspected that the reason for my sickness was heatstroke. But time passed, I began wearing hats, drinking more water, but I would still feel weak and nauseous. I came to a conclusion that I am allergic to the sun. This, later on had led to me being repulsed not only by sun related activities but summer as a whole.

Not that long ago, my girlfriend and I went on a holiday. We couldn?t have picked a place for quite some time. Mostly, because I was very negative towards any warm countries, but she wanted to have a road trip across Italy in summer. And after negotiating for a few days, I had finally given in. I didn?t want to upset her, and I wanted to make this holiday special to her ? I wanted to propose.

Packing and planning the avoidance of the sun did take a lot of time. And still after multiple packing and unpacking to fit more useful bits in, I still didn?t manage to put everything I was hoping to in. We set off and the flight went perfectly. I have never been calmer on a plane, usually turbulence is horrible. But this one, it was special; I could enjoy myself for the first time.

We started off in Rome. Some say that it is a poem in the form of a city. Valerie, my girlfriend, loved the architecture, while I was more focused on the cuisine heaven that the capital had to offer. We visited Milan, Bologna, Verona and Pisa. San Vincenzo was supposed to be the final destination of our journey. This was when I was planning to offer the love of my life my heart, soul and future.

I thought I had it set up perfectly. She is very romantic, so I tried to live up to the expectations I set in my head. We have never spoken about proposals. About marriage ? yes, but the things before that ? not really. Despite my strong dislike for the sun and possible allergy, I attempted to plan our visit to some café for a couple of drinks in the afternoon, and later we would have gone on the beach. Right when the sun would be going down, I would propose.

The morning was very well executed by me. I brought her fruits in bed, gave her a massage for her back. She usually needs that, especially on trips, where we walk a lot. At around noon we set off to the city from our hotel. I found cocktails refreshing, but I was still very nervous. She might have noticed it, but didn?t say anything. That day, it was a lot warmer than on the previous days of our holiday. I wore my hat and lots of sunscreen, but I recognised the potential threat of me laying down in bed not because I would have just got engaged, but because of a heatstroke.

I had a little too much to drink because of how afraid I was to lose the ring. She noticed my nervousness, my angel, and took me on a stroll around the town. We talked about nothing and everything. The time was passing too quickly, so we had to sprint to the beach to witness the sunset. I let her stand alone for a few moments while I was preparing myself to say the speech. But right when I got down on one knee, she did the same. I am sorry for not bringing any extravaganza into the women loving women relationships, but we did propose to each other at the same time after half a year of dating.

Certainly, I said yes, she said yes, we exchanged the rings, still standing on our knees. When we were getting up, I did it too fast and collapsed on the sand. The next thing I witnessed was me in a hospital bed. Val had to rush me to the hospital and get a translator to help us out. It took them a few tests and hours to try to figure out what was wrong with me. But at the end, it was not just a sun allergy, it was thermoregulatory dysfunction. That is a condition in which abnormal changes in body temperature occur spontaneously or in response to environmental stimuli.

They still let me go home the next day, but further on I will not go to Italy ever again. And I will still need to get hospital treatment but in my home country and my future wife, not just girlfriend, by my

First, it was the weather, then it was no working cars, then it was the virus, now? the power.

This past week has been... Well? interesting. Let's just call it that I'm not quite sure what has been happening. All of Monday it was flooding, huge waves crashing through cities, little towns, huge farms, destroying everything. We called that ?the wave?. On Tuesday, the sun was hotter than ever, scorching everything, catching fire if something got too hot. We called that ?the scorch?. Wednesday was not much better either. Everything froze over, it snowed all day if you went outside you would die. You would have to bundle up in everything you could find and stay inside if your home survived the first 2 weather instances. We called that ?the freeze?. On Thursday everything that transported people stopped working, planes, cars, busses, trains, if you needed to go somewhere you would have to walk. So far Friday was the worst day of them all, the virus hit. You would have to wear masks, gloves, and only go by people you lived with. Anybody who came in contact with the virus, well, they would die or turn into living zombies, they had no control of what they did, it's like their brain was dead. That was called ?The virus?

Today is Saturday, May 14. The year, 2029. And today the power went out, which would not be that bad if there wasn't a huge black blob floating through the sky headed our way. As my parents and my little sister pack up, I'm writing in my journal knowing it's gonna all end soon. Finally I start packing because we are gonna get out of here as fast as we can. My dad said we were heading to the ?Safe Haven? but as of right now I'm not too sure, I think he might have said that to make my little sister calm down. As we leave the house mom is worried that it might be the last time we see it, not knowing how long we will survive out there All of a sudden my dad says ?we're here!? and everybody sighs in relief. We go into the woods and find a camp with what looks like over 100 people in it. We set up our tent and go to the mess hall for dinner. We were only in the camp for a couple of days before someone caught ?the virus?. And because the power is still out there is not much we can do but *BANG* well that, kill him.

A couple of days have passed and what was about to happen shook us all.

So today is Friday the 20th. We?ve been at the camp for almost a week now, and then 3 school buses show up and a couple of military trucks, they explain to us that they are going to take us to the base and we shall be safe there. Of course, we were all excited but when we got there something was not right. The power was on, all their cars working, the base was in perfect shape even though the weird storms last week. Then it hit me. ?Mom! Dad!? I yelled. They were nowhere to be seen, and for my sister, she caught the virus and died. Someone comes up behind me and the next thing I know I'm back at the camp, power still out, but I'm the only one there. The only other different thing is? that black blob has now landed. It's over 20 feet long and at least 30 feet tall. I walked up to it and there was a door. As I walked inside, I saw on some computers every place that destruction hit. I saw the base and everybody there. My stomach sank. That is not a base, those are not the military, those are the outlanders, that's what I'm going to call them. And then, the power went out in the ship and there was a huge earthquake that shook the whole forest. I stepped out and ran to the nearest building, but with the power out there wasn't much I could do besides sit and write in my journal. Today is Sunday the 22nd. I am headed to the base to go save everyone but there is one problem? well the sun went away today. It is pitch black outside and with no power, running cars it is gonna be pretty hard to get there. It is 69 miles away and once you get there, you have to get through the gates. So off I go, I hope I don't meet a brain-dead human who caught the virus. The day is almost over, I think, and I have only walked about 30 miles, therefore I am going to quit for the day.

Monday, the 23rd, I made it to the base, how do I know? Well, all the lights are on, that's how. I shimmied my way Under one of the fences and ran inside. As I entered I got this huge feeling in my gut like someone was watching me, I turned around and saw a shadow of someone behind the wall, and at the exact moment all the lights went off and the halls of the base were filled with darkness and silence. A loudspeaker came on and said ? Do not worry it's probably just one of our ships landing everything should come back on in a few minutes? Did she mean? like the one I saw at the camp? I ran through the halls calling for my parents and eventually I found them. But something wasn't right. They didn't know who I was. I started crying not knowing what to do. So I ran to one of the military people and told them a couple people caught the virus. They called back up and went to investigate the situation. I ran back to my parents and grabbed their hands and drug them out of the base. Once we were off the property They instantly remembered everything but then my mom fell to the ground, next my dad, then me. The last thing I remembered was feeling a warm liquid run down my back to my feet and someone says ?If you're not going to cooperate you may leave, you have no choice? And then walked away.

The End