Life of a Soldier

6:15 pm

I'm still thinking about what he told me, it sounded like a joke but then it seemed like he was being serious about it. As I saw Pollen doing her daily training with one of the other female soldiers, Ava, I kept seeing her look up at her. I have a feeling she likes her or something, since she's mostly facing her breast. I mean, who wouldn't like her? She's sweet, helpful, and energetic. I remember once during combat she stopped to bandage a wounded soldier while everyone else left them to die. And unlike all of the women in certain outpost or as Pollen calls it 'specialized military camps', Ava didn't hide her breast, in which she not only gets stared at by men, but sometimes gets harassed by them. I just wish these jerks here didn't treat women like toys and actually treated them as if they were like men. Anyway Pollen had stopped to look at me, signaling me over. "where were you this morning?! I was trying to tell you the people from the northern part are coming to visit!" She yelled at me. Ava has turned and gave off a little wave as Pollen dragged me over. "Porter is gonna be so glad to see you again! I wonder what he looks like now since it's been years.."

Ava let out a soft chuckle. "Well it's more exotic than here, he's in a more well-trained camp, in which their workouts are way more harder than ours"

"Have you been there before Ava?"

"Well as a kid, I had a field trip to go there, I think Torcher and Delta was 19-20 I think.." She turned to the gate as some cars pulled up, some people coming out.

There was a wolf, covered in a gas mask, wearing goggles as one of his eyes were glowing orange, as his right arm was all purple. Some more soldiers came out: a very short mouse, the possibility of her being 5'2 or 5'4, 2 very buff soldier with a mask and a suit, one was taller than the other, while the other one looked feminine, a bear that was way more taller than the rest of the others and then Pepper, instead of his cheery smile and a hug he had a white streak in his hair, while his turquoise eyes were now a dark blue.

"Porter!" Pollen called out as he turned to her. It went cold for a moment as he continued to stare us down. "Have you guys ever learned to NOT distract a soldier from the order of a Sargent? You two act like kids during recess Ya know." He spat out, looking at Pollen. "And yet still immature as ever Pollen, no wonder why you never made it into a camp like me, your just like everyone else, childish and a fool." Right when I was going to say something the wolf from earlier called him, I think that was 'Delta' that Ava mentioned earlier. What happened to him..? As i looked at Pollen she was laughing a bit, holding back the pain she had. "Heh.. we always joke like that... he doesn't really mean that..I'm just gonna go back to training, cmon Ava.." She began walking away as Ava followed her. "That's not the Porter I know.." One of the soldiers came by, one of the tall ones as they took off their helmet, a hamster. "I saw what happened kid, they don't usually act like this" they whispered to me. "It's a thing that happens to the camp, they're suppose to act that way, and Sargent Monroe gave us an order to not communicate with you guys since you guys are in the 'lower level' camp. But I don't believe that shit" They began chuckling as they shook my hand. "The names Henry kid."

"Samuel, but everyone calls me Sam or Sammy."

"Nice name kid, I guess your camp doesn't have the same rules huh?" They asked, putting their helmet on.

"What rules?"

"Gender rules, me and Mary go to a non-gender neutral camp, they think theirs only one girl there but I guess Monroe is to dumb to know what these things are" They let out another chuckle as they showed a photo from google.

"YOUR A GIRL?!" I yelled as she covered my mouth. "Shush kid! There's more people here! But yes, I am!" She said to me. As she looked around she stopped, looking at me. "I need you to keep this secret ok? My real names Harley and I don't want ANYONE to know about this, Delta is already suspicious of me and I don't want anyone to realize I'm a girl and IM NOT GONNA LOSE MY CHANCE AGAIN, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!"

After the betrayal of my old friend, and me keeping a secret from someone I barely know, she seemed better than Porter, she suffered, she's hurt....

She's just like me... she's lost and afraid