Red For Rebellious

Tell Me About Yourself

I peeked back at Colton, who was looking around the room with a sad expression on his face. He obviously knew it was Melody’s room, but he hadn’t said anything, and I was thankful for that.

“Alright,” I whispered while opening the window, “the tree outside is really sturdy, just ask Mark.”

I motioned for Colton to go first. He effortlessly grabbed onto the branch outside and lowered himself closer to the next lowest branch. After his feet were placed firmly on that one, he let go of the top branch, steadied himself and jumped to the ground.

“Easy peasy!” he called up. “But wait there, I need to get something before you come down!”

Colton darted of towards the front yard as I stayed in the window of Melody’s room. After about a minute of waiting, Colton’s dark figure reappeared under the tree. He was holding something in his hands, but I couldn't tell what it was.

“Come on down!” he hissed up.

Taking a deep breath, I reached out for the branch and grabbed on. Pushing off the window, I hung in midair. Colton was taller, and his feet reached the bottom branch easily. I was shorter,  so I had to move down the branch I was holding onto until my feet touched bellow. Picturing myself on monkey bars, I moved further down the branch slowly.

After shifting my hold on the tree about four times, my feet skimmed the lower branch and I let go. Now I was practically touching the main part of the tree, so I had something to steady myself with. I got my balance and bent my legs before jumping off. With a thud my feet hit the ground.

Now I could see what Colton was holding; the video camera. He must have had some obsession with the thing because he was always lugging it around.

“You made me wait just so you could capture me climbing down a tree?”

Colton looked down at the camera in his hands and shrugged. “It was your first sneak out; I had to get it on tape.”

“But technically it wasn’t my first, you did make me climb down my balcony before,” I pointed out.

“But you never actually left your yard, so technically in my book that isn’t sneaking out.”

“I did sneak out of the house though!”

“But you never left the yard!”

Rolling my eyes, I grabbed the camera from his hand and pointed it in his direction. He flinched from behind the lens and held up his hand.

“Camera shy?” I asked.

Colton snatched the camera from my hands and pointed it back at me. “Of course not, but the camera doesn’t do me justice. It can’t capture all my sexiness.”

I tried to hold in my laugh as long as possible, but in seconds I was bent over laughing harder than I had in a while. Although I fully agreed that Colton was sexy, his arrogance and confidence was easy to laugh at.

“There’s no denying I’m hot Sutton,” he said glaring down at me.

Straightening up, I raised my hands in the air. “Whoa, I’m not denying anything!”

Colton smiled. “So you do think I’m sexy.”

Thankfully the lack of lighting covered my cheeks because I could tell my face was on fire. Why did Colton always seem to make me blush when no one else could?

“I think you’re cocky,” I said brushing past him and walking towards the front yard.

He followed after loudly, tripping over some branches and a few other things scattered in the yard. When I turned back to scold him, the camera was once again trained on me.

“Must you video tape me?” I hissed.

Colton nodded, but did not reply. Sighing, I continued towards his bike which was parked on the side of the street. I looked up at the night sky as I waited for Colton to start his bike. Stars littered the endless black void.

“Trying to catch a shooting star?” Colton asked as his motorcycle rumbled to life.

“Something like that.”

He handed me his helmet and I climbed onto the bike. “So where exactly are we going?” I asked.

“I guess you’ll have to find out.”

**

“And what exactly are we doing here?”

Colton had taken us on a thirty minute ride out of town and into the middle of nowhere. We were on a back road, surrounded by trees and buzzing insects. There was a sign on the side of the road, but it was so weathered that I wasn’t able to read anything.

Instead of answering me, he took my hand and led me closer to the woods. I was about to protest when I saw the trail he was leading us too. Okay, so maybe I wouldn’t have to trudge through the thick underbrush, but the trail still didn’t explain what we were doing here.

“Colton what are we—“

“Shhh,” he interrupted, putting a single finger to his mouth. “Just listen.”

At first, all I heard was the crunching of our feet hitting the underbrush, but as we traveled further down the trail, all kinds of noises seemed to fill the night. Buzzing insects sang out all around us, the faint but familiar hoot of an owl echoed off the trees, I could even almost hear the trickling of water.

As we approached a clearing, I realized that my hand was still in Colton’s. Taking a deep breath, I tried to ignore the butterflies in my stomach. Stop feeling like this Sutton!

Before I could get into some internal battle with myself, Colton stepped aside and I gasped. The clearing was smaller than I thought it would be, but it ended at the start of a small pool of water that gradually went out into a waterfall. Although the water was black under the night sky, I could tell it was a beautiful blue color by day.

“Well?”

“How did you find this place?” I asked, turning to face Colton who was smirking down at me.

He looked out at the water before turning back to watch me. “Uh, I used to come here with my dad all the time, he would take me and my bro—siblings out here for the day. No one really knows it’s here, he found it hiking a while back.”

“It’s beautiful,” I whispered, looking back out at the serene view Colton had provided me with.

Sometimes I needed a reminder of how beautiful the world could be, it always seemed like such an ugly place.

My eyes landed on Colton once again; he was still watching me. “Yes, it is,” he replied, gaze still stuck on me.

Taking in a deep breath, I lowered myself to the ground and laid down on my back. Colton mimicked my position, and we both gazed up at the stars.

“You know, we really don’t know much about each other,” I pointed out.

He laughed. “Tell me about yourself, freckles.”

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