Inspiration for Code Red

I’d like to claim that I had a group of friends and we had our own Code Red in college, but that’s not the case! I woke up one day with Nicole’s voice in my head and I knew she had a major wall up and why, but not what she did to protect herself. The Code Red idea came out of that, along with of course women’s tried and true methods of avoidance like having a friend call you to get you out of a bad date and the lesbian lie and all that good stuff. Yes, I have used both of those a time or two in my life to avoid a man, but not the “right” man. Always the wrong one! 

I don’t have those close ties with college friends any longer and I miss and envy Nic’s relationship with her girls. They are truly a family for one another and they don’t hide their opinions or mince words with Nic when they feel she’s being unreasonable and closing herself off for no good reason. Her ex did hurt her, to be sure, but she’s definitely over that. She’s just afraid of taking a chance and risking her heart again. It can be a scary thing that most of us likely relate to! I know I do!

How many random ideas came from drunken nights with friends? I’m sure we’ve all enacted a few! And that’s where Code Red came from, watching TV and hating on men. The women had different reasons for deciding to go along with it. Nic and Mandy were of course burned by the same man. Kim is driven and doesn’t want distractions. Jen is shy. Ashley is just going along because it seems like a good idea at the time, especially after watching her roommate get hurt. Together they form a pretty formidable unit. Good thing they occasionally work against instead of for each other or they’d all be single!

While we may not have had our own Code Reds, I think the majority of people can relate to being afraid to take that jump into a relationship. Not all of us take it to the extreme that Nic does, but I think we’ve all been there in one form or another. She has a great support system to get her through and if I wish one thing for my readers, it’s that they have great friends or family or, especially, their own Code Red that they fought for instead of ran from! Ultimately, he just may be worth it!

Amy Noelle is a thirty-something single woman with two cats, Lily and Logan. Though she contends that she is not a crazy cat lady, she freely admits to being a crazy football fan. You can find her glued to the couch every fall weekend, cheering on her Seminoles and Buccaneers. After attending Florida State University for two years, she transferred to Northern Illinois University and graduated in 1997 with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. She was born in the Azores Islands, Portugal, and lived as a military brat from the west coast to the east coast of the United States, though she's found her permanent home in Tampa, Florida, for the last decade. Besides football and writing, her other loves are television, movies, the beach, thunderstorms, and her family and friends.

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