I Pledge My Love (Revising)

Illegal Things

I woke up in the middle of the night. The taping on my window continued. I got out of bed and silently walked to it.

There were two blue eyes watching me from outside. I silently slide the window open and glanced down.

"Hudson?" I blinked, my eyes adjusting from a dream. Not the Dream of course.

"Good morning Rain." he said, pulling himself up and swinging his legs over the windowsill and into my room.

"What are you doing? It's one in the morning!" I yawned, forgetting how to correctly respond.

"I know. But I missed you." he pleaded.

"You know this is illegal right? You're putting both of us in danger." I hissed, glancing at my door to make sure my parents weren't there.

"Yeah, yeah I know." He yawned. "But I missed you."

I rolled my eyes. "You've got to be kidding me Hudd. What time is it?"

"One." he replied, checking his watch. "And you just told me the time when you were whisper yelling."

"That's too early." I said. "Wake me up when the sun does." I ignored his last sentence.

"Rain let's go for a walk." he suggested. "Please?"

"Fine." I grunted, pulling on a sweatshirt.

We crawled through my other window and hopped down from the second floor and silently went around the side of my house. About twenty yards from my back door was the woods. We raced and Hudson soon disappeared from my sight, taking longs leaps to keep ahead of me. After a while I couldn't hear his footsteps pounding the ground.

"Hudd? I whispered into the inky black. His arms dropped down from a tree and grabbed mine, interlocking fingers and pulling me up. His powerful arms yanked my into the air and into the tree. I sat wedged between him and the rough pine bark. Boughs brushed against us in the wind.

"You scared me! Don't do that Hudd!" I frowned, pulling my hair back to keep it from flying in my face.

He laughed and put his arm around me. I could tell he had on jeans and a cotton tee shirt, but I couldn't tell what color it was in the darkness. Probably orange.

"You are so childish," I laughed with him.

"Can I ask you something?" Be said after a few minites, his voice was quiet and sincere.

I nodded.

"What if it isn't me? What if it's someone else?" his voice quivered.

"Then I'll be happy for you." I said simply. "And you'll be happy for me. Promise?" I asked after a beat.

"Promise." he responded.

He leaned in to kiss me, but I pushed him away so that only our foreheads touched. I could see his eyes clearly now.

"Hudd... we can't." I tried to explain.

"Why not?" his eyes searched mine. Those eyes again. The only ones I could see.

"They'll take us away Hudd. Its illegal. They'll... they'll..." I trailed off, words from the morning creed echoing in my brain.

We believe in punishment of those who cannot follow our rules...

Hudson slipped off the tree, pulling me with him and leaving my thoughts stuck in the pine, laced in the needles. Our feet thudded on the cold floor of the forest. We walked back in silence.

"Goodbye Rain," he smiled.

"Hudson, go already. I'll see you in less than three hours!"

"But that's so far away!" he whined.