Three Red Lines (15)

Clark walked passed my door at around four thirty.
I jumped up from my bed and out the door. "Hey."
"Hi." He seemed mad.
"How was school?"
"Fine." He wouldn't even look at me. "Can you leave?"
What a jerk. Without saying anything I walked back to my room.
I sat on my bed. My eyes lingered over my viola. I got up and brought the case to my bed. I opened it.
It looked the same way it did the last time I played it. My fingers plucked the strings. The sound was awful. I tuned each string. Something I hadn't done for a while. Once my instrument was tuned, I put it back. I still wasn't ready to play it again.
I heard my phone go off. It was Travis.
"Hello?"
"Hey, can you get my homework from school tomorrow and drop it off at my house?"
"Sure. Are your parents mad at you?"
"Not really, I mean they aren't happy with what I did, but they aren't mad."
"That's good." I wasn't sure what to say next. "Hey, can I come over for a little bit, no one in my family is talking to me and I'm kind of bored."
"Yeah, that's totally fine." I could sense excitement in his voice. "But how are you going to get here?"
Crap. Didn't think of that. "I'll find a way. See you in a few."I hung up the phone and tried thinking of a way to get to Travis'.
I decided to sneak out the back door and take my bike. It took me about fifteen minutes to get to his house.
I knocked on the door. It was Hannah who answered.
"Scarlette!" She caught me off guard by hugging me.
"Hey Hannah, how's it been?"
She let go. "Good. Come in." I followed her inside. "Travis, Scarlette's here."
He came around the corner. "How'd you get here?"
"I biked here." I smiled and hugged him.
"Let's go out back." Why does he want to go out to the backyard? We sat on his back porch. "How was the rest of your day?"
"Boring."
We kept talking about anything and everything.
"I have a question." Travis looked confused and nervous.
"Yes?"
"Well, I've been thinking about this for the past two days, and well, I heard what Allen said at school..."
"Travis, where are you going with this?" I kind of laughed a little. "Just ask me."
He was very hesitant. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Woah, that was unexpected. I was speechless at first.
I started to smile. "Of course." He smiled too.
"I didn't think you would say yes after what happened today."
"That doesn't change anything." I scooted closer to him.
After about two hours of being at his house, it started getting late.
"Shoot, I have to get home before my parents kill me."
"Okay, I'll see you after school tomorrow. Sorry I can't drive you."
"No biggie. See you later." I hugged him one more time before I left.
As I started to leave, Travis kissed me. "Bye." I blushed and walked away.
It was about eight o'clock when I got home.
"Where were you?" Ella was sitting in the den.
"Chil out, I went to Travis' house."
"What were you doing there? Same thing as Friday?" Who told her that? "Clark told me what you did." I stared at her shocked. "What possessed you to do something like that?" Now she was almost yelling.
"I swear to god, I didn't do anything. Someone at school started a rumor that I did. Come on, you have to believe me."
"I don't think I can."