“Tina, I carved our initials and a heart in this tree,” Matt said.
Tina looked closely at the carved letters in the tree’s trunk. “What does ‘MAIV’ stand for?”
“That’s me, Matt Anderson the fourth,” he said proudly.
“And ‘TSWV’?”
“Tina Susan Wilson,” Matt said. “But I screwed up the carving a little.”
“And ‘NYIAJ’?”
“New York in April,” Matt explained. “Remember last April? The ‘J’ was supposed to be an exclamation mark, but I screwed that up, too.”
“And the red color?”
“I accidentally sliced my finger, so I painted the letters with my blood.”
“You’re one sick puppy.”
Written for Bikurgurl’s 100 Word Wednesday prompt.
This, That, and the Other 
And he in the most recent in a long line of tree carvers. A good story.
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Great
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Oh, I don’t know. Painting it all in his own blood is pretty sexy, in a vampiric way.
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Eww, it just turned creepy.
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