Among the Fallen.

chapter two.

"Remembering her comes in flashbacks and echoes

Tell myself it's time now gotta let go

But moving on from her is impossible

When I still see it all in my head

In burning red."

               - Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift.

Chester, United Kingdom. 2021.

"I need the color red, Brooke!" I yelled, my sister used to hide all of my stuff just to piss me off. I could hear her giggles in the other room. I was making a Valentine's day card for a girl in my school, it was my dad's idea. I needed the color red, the color of love.

Colors; the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light. Have you ever wondered about the actual meaning of every color? Well, you actually can't because everyone associates them differently.

We tend to choose one color to be our favorite throughout our whole lives. Maybe it's because our eyes see something special in it, maybe it's because it makes us feel happy, or maybe there's not an accurate reason except the fact that it is just a cool color.

Same thing happens when we choose our partners. No one forces you to pick a color, and certainly no one forces you to pick a partner. Several reasons back you up on why you chose them. Maybe it's because they're funny, laughs over looks as they say. Or someone may prefer the looks, or they caught your eye as you were walking and somehow you felt the need to get closer, to talk to them, to meet them. Maybe it happened overnight and you picked a partner without even realizing it. There are endless reasons to explain why we chose them, I could go on, and on, and on.

Feelings; an emotional state or reaction. People tend to associate emotions or feelings with colors, it's easier. Ever since we're born our brain tends to lean itself towards colors, whether they are vibrant or pastel colors. We use colors to identify safe or dangerous situations. You know, white can be associated with purity for some. Blue, equals sadness most of the time. Yellow can be interpreted as happiness, that's why most of the children draw a sun with a happy face on the corner of their sheets of paper. Black.. Well, I think we all know what that means. Death.

But have you ever associated people with colors? I find it interesting, to connect people with colors, there is a sense of understanding in it, you see them differently. Think about it this way.. when you see someone who's extremely charming and confident, they have to be a Leo, you assume. Well, I do the same thing but with colors. A girl I met back in Law school, she was soft, incredibly creative and loyal. In my head she was light blue, so I saved her in my phone as Jenny light blue. Another guy I met at a coffee shop was quiet, introverted, and kind. He seemed sad but put together at the same time, so I granted him the color gray. My sister has always been orange red because every time she yells at me her face flushes and mixes with her orange hair, or you know, maybe I just associated that color with her because she is ginger.

There you go, one of my ultimate secrets when it comes to reading people. Still, I wouldn't trust this a lot, it's not as if it is completely accurate. What if that Leo was actually an Aquarius? or a Scorpio? Well, the same thing happens here, sometimes you might be wrong when you are connecting colors.

Sometimes.

Chill, I haven't forgotten about the most important or at least most used and well known color. Red. Man, it's everywhere, in your cheeks when you're embarrassed, in your burning face when you're boiling from rage, in your lips after they've been kissed. In Valentine's day marketing, in the blood running through your veins, in the most important organ your body holds, your heart.