WEiRd FAMily

PERIODS!

"Did you get your periods, Nora?" A man asks as he furrows his grey eyebrows and pats his bald head.

"No papa" She answers. Her snobby nose flares as she gives out a heavy sigh. At a glance anyone could say they were father and daughter, as their noses were a perfect match- bulbous, snobby, flabby, and with a little touch of cuteness. Who could ever resist the urge to pinch their nose?

"Oh God, I have never seen people talk about periods so shamelessly" A stout woman spouts in a sweet yet sarcastic tone. One may think she is the only sane person in the 'Aloha' household. But the society that defines 'sanity', is itself not sane.

"Mom" Says Nora, "Period talk was normalized the day you bled your uterus out! Your little fibroid always acted weird whenever we were out in public, remember?"

Her mother feels embarrassed at the faint memory of those bloody days. She thanks God for the successful hysterectomy done on her which cured her sickness.

"I think our daughter has fibroid!" The father exclaims."Why isn't she getting her period?"

He gets a questioning look from both the females, but at this point they were almost used to his paranoid nonsense. Well, fibroid rarely delays your period. The main symptom of fibroid is heavy and painful bleeding. No matter how many times you explain this to him, he just wouldn't cast out his obsession with fibroid.

"Papa, I did get an USG done six months back. It was normal, so why have such doubts?"

"You never know!" He snaps. It is pointless to speak of logics to an irrational man.

"Whoop!" Nora puts her hand over her stomach and quickly grabs a pad before entering the bathroom. Few moments later her parents hear a voice from the other side of the door which says, "It's finally here!"

They follow with a sigh of relief.

"Such an over-reaction for two days of delay" ponders Noel- the youngest son of Aloha family- but dares not to say.