Tap Sapiens by Robin Poon

Author:Robin Poon [Poon, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-17T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

9

“In a world like this one, fiction can be your best and only true friend.”

N O ONE GOES INTO THE ARMY expecting to find a lot of privacy, so Brandi had been caught off guard at times and never truly impressed by the consequences of sharing her bedroom with more than ten other women. What did amaze her was how pleasant it felt to gain a taste of privacy once she had moved into another room. She still had to share her space with someone else but it was so different from having fraction of an army around her at all times. She could go to her room to find peace, solace and tranquility – it was reliable. The best part was that she wasn’t sharing the room with just anybody. Brandi was overjoyed every day when it was further confirmed that Sara was nearly the perfect roommate.

In contrast with Brandi’s rebellious tendencies and her lackadaisical attitude towards fitting any kind of mold and following rules, Sara had been more shaped by her time in the army. She kept her space astoundingly neat and strictly organized. Her manners were translated into her personal image. There was something sleek in her personal style that made her appear almost elegant in the exact same clothes that made everybody else look dull. She simply had an incomprehensible balance of grace and gallantry in her way of carrying herself that sometimes had Brandi hypnotized. That was a woman aware of her abilities and her power, Brandi was sure that Sara could have convinced anyone she was of a higher rank if she really wanted to.

Several days had passed, they had been easily growing comfortable with each other and Brandi couldn’t explain how flawless it felt. The first few days in were simply strange. While the earned privacy was pretty much welcomed, having just one more person in the room with you was oddly intimate. Brandi felt irrationally restless that Sara would hear her thoughts late at night when the quietness settled, in those brief moments before sleep would take over. Yet by the end of first week, the silence was no more and Sara was easily breaking down Brandi’s barriers in addition to turning the unusual, forced intimacy into enjoyable, effortless trust. The nights became cherished moments for conversations to flow in the space between their two beds.

“I just think we should be allowed more books in here.” Brandi confessed during one of their late-night, heart-to-heart conversations.

“Why do you want so many books? Don’t you have enough already in those awfully boring lectures?”

“They’re not particularly good … they don’t really show us the real world, do they? We need more books here, other than just fictions.” Brandi timidly remarked, trying to keep her genuine thoughts on the present education system to herself. Then, she eagerly waited for Sara’s response.

“In a world like this one, fiction can be your best and only true friend.” she finally answered.

Brandi had noticed that although Sara never seemed to

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