Teaser Tuesday

Just posting my first teaser for Teaser Tuesday!

This is a scene from "Catching Up to You" (synopsis in the left sidebar). Here's a quick overview of what happened right before for context: This is a flashback in which Kendall is five and Colt is nine. Colt is convinced you can only prove you're best friends with somebody if you throw one shoe each tied together over  a phone line. He makes Kendall sacrifice a shoe and the following ensues:

     I watched as he made his way up the tree again. He seemed super human, climbing swiftly, barely making a sound. I was less graceful, taking an alternate route, scared that if I touched the same branches as him they’d fall from the weight. I felt a rush run through me as a gush of wind sent the leaves around us flying into the air and fluttering to the ground. Colt was right, the wind was stronger up here. My hair whipped around my face with the breeze.

     “Here’s good,” Colt finally said. He patted the branch he was sitting on, signaling me to come and join him.

     I carefully moved over and straddled the branch. When I was safely perched, I exhaled, not having realized I’d been holding my breath.

     “You’re fine,” he said.

     “I know.” I looked around. It was cool up here. I could see our houses. They looked even closer together from here than they did from up close. I could see beyond our houses too, into the street. Cars zoomed by, unaware of the two kids in the tree.

     I looked over at Colt. Behind his head, our shoes swayed on the phone line slowly.

     “So now we’re really best friends,” Colt said, turning his head to look at the shoes.

     “We weren’t before?” I asked.

     “Well, yeah. But now everyone knows.”

     “No one but us goes in these woods.”

     He shrugged. “Well, now we won’t forget.”

     I wish I could say this was the moment I fell in love with Colt because those words, now that I look back on them, were true to this day. But honestly, I was five, and the weight of those words didn’t really hit me until years later when we’d visit our spot again and again.

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