Reader POV
It was a dark and stormy night with loud thunder, I looked out my bedroom window only to find a glowing orb, maybe it was a lantern cause where I live it wasn't unusual to use a lantern to see but this so called "lantern" was glowing red? No. I must not be seeing this correctly because I have never in my 16 years of living in this world seen a red glowing lantern, or was it even a lantern? It looked very magical but not really magic because magic isn't real it just look so magical anyway I opened my window to see better but when I pulled my window up I didn't see anything, I slowly shook my head in disbelief. " I swore it was right there" I whispered as I shut my window and throwing on coat and running downstairs to my garden to find the lantern off but it had blood on it??? I screamed as loud as I could which alarmed a couple of my neighbors which made them come outside but I was already in a mental shock I didn't feel someone tap my shoulder and when I did feel the hand I realized how cold it was, and it wasn't just a normal cold it was a freezing cold. I turned around to see a girl my age? Was it a girl? Or a boy? I couldn't tell but what caught my eye was their hands and clothes. They were covered in blood. I was so mortified I didn't hear them say their name. "W-who are yo-you?" I said scared out of my mind because it's not everyday you see a boy/girl covered in blood tapping you on the shoulder! "Oh I just answered that but okay anyways my name is Oliver I live in the woods behind your house I wanted to say hi and sorry about the lantern and blood!" They said in a sassy tone at the beginning which threw me off "Um not to be rude but what are you and why do you have blood on you?" I asked a little more calmed "That's a little rude but I am transgender meaning I once was a girl but I wanna be a boy." He said proudly "You STILL haven't told me why you have blood all over you." I said running out of patients "Oh well you know I got my period." He said sarcastically "Just kidding but I can't tell you of else they might get me..." He said quietly but then his head snaps up and his eyes widen and grabs the lantern the runs for the forest. That's all I saw of him since then but now and then I would see a red glow and bloody foot prints knowing it was him.
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