It's been a while since my sister updated you. I'm now thirteen years of age, I have come out to my brother and sister as genderfluid, they have been very understanding, but as you can imagine my mother was not as pleased.
My Francesca is morphing, not only physical morphing, but also bending the mind, this allows me to block unwanted thoughts.
I attend high school, where both my siblings went before me, I get sent home regularly.
I'm not a bad kid, I swear.
Sadly, today my mother arrived shortly after I got home. She stormed in chucking her bag on the table.
'Good afternoon mother.' I greet her as normal, but she's not in a good mood.
'Do you have any idea what my days been like? I come home, you haven't done any of your chores and instead you're watching tv, do you know how expensive the electricity bills are?'
Mother has kept the cat, that my sister turned to stone by accident. I don't remember the cat, but mother calls it Fluffy.
'Yes mother, I'll do it now,' I get up off the floor and walks towards the cat, picking it up. I start to carry the cat to the kitchen and I trip over a chair leg, the cat smashes to pieces. My mother doubles over grabbing her head tears rolling down her face.
'You idiot!' I sit up looking at her in shock I can't believe I did that. She kicks me in my ribs screaming at me, I don't know what I should do.
I look at my mother again and realise that her knee is slowly turning to stone, I know this is my sister's work. I pick up a large shard of the stone, and thrash the stone into her knee repeatedly, blood and debris fly into my face. The process speeds up, my mother is fully stone. Her face forever frozen in rage.
I pack my bags and contact my brother.
^Are you with Ru'? ^
^Yeah, what's up? ^
^Can I come over; mums turned to stone.^
^We know, I'll tell you where to go after you get to the forest entrance. ^
…As I walk along the road, I hear the strumming of a guitar. I follow the sound to find a boy busking in the woods. His skin is patched with different colours. I walk closer.
Al' reaches out to me. ^This is Dae Hyun, he is going to help you get here. ^
The boy looks up at me smiling, 'you must be Zhuang.' He puts his guitar into its case, and we shake hands.
'You must be Dae Hyun.' I laugh, he's kind of cute.
We walk further into the forest. Eventually making it to a tree, with what looks to be a door carved into its large roots. The boy walks into the arch way, I follow him cautiously into the dark.
As we walk further, I start to hear muffled voices ahead.