Light It Up Red

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Travis</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Red. You could say it's my favorite color.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's nothing like seeing the lights go red after I've scored a goal.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The red she paints her lips f***ing hypnotizing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's the image I choose to focus on now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's a hell of a lot better than the red of the blood currently staining my shirt. Or the red of the flashing lights surrounding me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I wake up in a hospital bed my first thought is those red lips and the girl who owns them.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except she's not here.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Liliana</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Most men I date are scared away as soon as they meet my family.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Travis isn't most men. He's stared down the barrel of my father's gun without flinching.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He should have run though.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If he had he wouldn't be lying in a hospital bed right now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never wanted to believe my family would be capable of doing this. But that little voice in the back of my head likes to remind me of who I am. Who I'll always be.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Liliana Valentino daughter of Theo Valentino the current Don of the Valentino Crime Family.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes you have to break hearts to keep them be. </span></p><p></p>