I was at the park with my boyfriend, enjoying a breezy afternoon, when a woman in her late 30s suddenly approached. Without explanation, she pressed a sanitary pad into my hand and said urgently, “You need this,” before vanishing into the crowd. Confused, I checked the restroom—no period, nothing unusual—but a strange
unease lingered. Back with my boyfriend, I unwrapped the pad and found a message scrawled in shaky red ink: “Trust him.” My heart pounded as I stared at the words, wondering why a stranger would deliver such a cryptic warning. Was it about my boyfriend, or something deeper I couldn’t yet understand?
