Before she knew where her feet had taken her she was walking into the rec room. April had set out from the apartment hours ago it seemed, no destination in sight, just a desire to be up and moving and to have some room to stretch and breath. She loved her brother and loved Rae and EJ, but there was no denying their space was cramped, a comfortable kind of cramped, but the kind that you still needed a break from every now and then.
This was April’s break.
Stopping just inside the doorway, she laughed softly as words from a book came to mind when she thought about where her feet might have lead her to. “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” If only the author would have known how true those words would be nearly sixty-five years later. Life now was just one big adventure, one that April often met with arms wide open.
Or on days like today, she simply accepted it for what it was. A quiet day spent in an area of the compound she didn’t often venture to, and with companions she didn’t know. Which wasn’t saying much, because April was realizing she still didn’t know many people around Sing Sing. If they didn’t have a connection to her cousin or her brother, well, she likely hadn’t had any kind of interaction with them.
Maybe she needed to change that.
Glancing around the room, April really couldn’t pin point a single person that really screamed at her ‘Make friends with me. So she supposed it was best to just play ‘person roulette’ and pick one at random. In a silly moment of childishness, she stepped into the rec room further, closed her eyes and spun around with her hand out stretch and her index finger pointing. After a couple of rotations she came to a stop and opened her eyes. Her attempt at picking someone had wound up with her picking the arcade game, which wasn’t the point. Time for plan B.
Her gaze traveled around the room again, settling on a guy who seemed particularly engrossed in whatever it was he was doing. Writing, maybe? April didn’t give it much more thought than that, opting instead to make her way over towards the guy and settling herself near him once she had reached her destination.