She likes to think that one's room tells a story. It doesn't matter whether they're allowed to choose what it looks like or not, a story unfolds nonetheless.
She dreams of a room where she can fill it with endless stories, endless memories. It doesn't have much, but what it contains means much. She'll have photographs on the walls and put up posters of things she'll like. She'll keep the room white at first, then draw on the walls with black permanent marker when she's much older. They won't be bright rainbow crayon scribbles, like 5-year-olds do, but she'll use it to tell more stories. I'd like a room where I can put tales within tales, memories within memories. That's what she wants.
She'll have a pastel colored desk with lava lamps and art materials. It'll always be messy, and she wouldn't mind. A whole pile of books will sit by her bed, on the opposite end of the room, and some might find their way under the bed. Scraps of paper and art will make their way into the corners of her room.
Other times she likes to think of a room where she knows where nothing is, or where it should be. Everything will never be in the same place, and looking for one thing and finding another will be an adventure altogether. The single jacket she wears everyday will start out on the hook of her door, then land on her bed, and the next day she'll not know where it is, then find it maybe weeks later.
A third kind of room is one that is nearly empty, with only a bed and desk. It isn't lonely, it's just spacious. She'll be free to move around as much as she wants, and would have not much of a reason to complain about limited space--unless, of course, the room was narrower than the space between an excitable young child and an adorable puppy.
Each and every room tells a story, she likes to think. She looks around her room and sees a pile of books somewhere near the corner. There is a drawer with things, countless things--so many that she could not name them all. There are sneakers scattered on the floor. She looks around her room and thinks, "What story does this tell?"
YOU ARE READING
Sonder
Short StoryThis is a collection of short stories, based on the different events in a single individual's life, and how other people are threaded into it.
