Women and Children first chapter 1

Women and children first. That's what They said when we had to go underground and when the world is ending you don't argue. It's been 10 years since the dead started to walk and we had to hide. The movies were wrong, the dead don't stop when you shoot them, they just get pissed. The Z word is outlawed here because they don't want us to panic but we all know what those things are. Anyway my name is Maddie, i was only 7 when my mother and I were forced underground. They said women and children first but I think they just wanted us to themselves. They are the Council, a group of six men who decide everything that happens here. My father is not one of them, he's still up there, on the surface. The council has decided that we need to increase our dwindling population and in a few weeks they will pick a group of 15 young girls over the age of 18 to be "honored mothers." Basically they're going to breed those chosen, there are two problems. 1) the honored mothers don't have a choice and 2) I turn 18 next week.