Periods

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I was doing my morning ✨anti-aging❌👵, hydrating💦, moisturizing🧴, refreshing😌, glowing🌟, anti-inflammatory✨ skincare with 🐘 dRunK eLEPhANt 🐘 when I realized my ✨aesthetic matching pajama set✨ was stained with 🩸 blood 🩸 which is 😩SO NOT AESTHETIC😩

Most eleven year olds might 😱 scREaM 😱 but I am very rEsPectfUl, vEry miNdFul, very DeMuRe. 😌 So I stay calm and make an ✨aesthetic asmr grwm day in the life period edition✨video on my YouTube channel ✨aestheticallypaisley13.✨ My mother yells at me that I will be lAtE fOr ScHoOl 😣 but sixth grade is not important right now 😑 I'm trying to give my SuBsCribErS content! Mother this is a full time job 🙄.

"uGh I'm coming" I yell downstairs. Some days I just want to hit her in the head with my ✨aesthetic 40-ounce limited edition Stanley✨ but she buys me drunk elephant so I guess she's okay 😒.  I open the cabinet to pick out today's ✨Stanley✨ and decide on the blue one with the flower straw accessory because it's so 🤩 preppy 🤩 and get in the car. My mom is playing her 👵 old person music 👵 so NOT PREPPY 😩 Luckily I have my own music which is 🎀very preppy 🎀 

I get out of the car two blocks away from school to film my 🍁 aesthetic fall walking to school 🍁 video (I told you this is a full time job 😓) I walk with my bestie, who has a matching ✨aesthetic 40 ounce Stanley✨ I forgot to coordinate with her today, but luckily it still worked out because we know each other so well.

"Omg I love your outfit it's so 🥰 preppy 🥰" my bestie Hannah says

"Is that a new Stanley 😳 I'm so jealous 😩" I say, "my mom says I don't need more Stanleys, but I need all of them 😡" 

"It's a knockoff 😭" Hannah says, "but I covered it in stickers so nobody knows" 

"ugh is your mom poor?" I ask 

"No she just said they're the same but they're literally not I hate her 😠" Hannah says, "at least she hasn't taken away my 🫧 Bubble 🫧"

"At least it's convincing." I say. I'm so mad at Hannah for not bringing a real Stanley because it might look like a Stanley, but it just... isn't? It's ruining my preppy vibes 😤

"Omg I saw your new video." Hannah says, "what's it like having your period?" 

"I hate it 😡" I say, "it just ruins the aesthetic, trust me that video took a lot of editing to make it look preppy 😩"

We get to school and I only realize that I did not bring an extra pad when I sit down in my first class. I can only hope that I don't leak through today, but I know I probably will. 😥 I can feel the blood coming out of me and it's so weird, and all I can think about is how this is so GROSS 🤢. I feel like I'm just ~oozing~ and I hope nobody notices I'm acting weird. I start making my notes •preppy• with my pastel highlighters and pens. Class ends and I stand up, I don't think I'll ever get used to the sudden rush of blood that comes with standing up. Even though it's only been an hour, I already feel like there's blood on my lululemon leggings. So I go to the bathroom and check, but of course, there isn't any. I'm just being a little delulu today, but it feels like that is the only solulu. I meet up with Hannah again on my way to math, which we have together. 

"I wish I had my period 🥺" Hannah says, and I look at her 🤨, because why would you want to bleed uncontrollably? It's not fun. So I ask why 🤔 "because... I don't know..." she says, "you just seem so much more grown up than me now." 

"Oh..." I say awkwardly, I had never thought of that. So I stop talking about my period and start talking about anything else. We end up debating whether 🐘 drunk elephant 🐘 or 🫧 bubble 🫧 is preppier. I can tell though, Hannah is still thinking about how she thinks I'm more grown up than her. During the awkward pauses, we sip from our ✨aesthetic 40-ounce Stanleys✨ For the first time, I am truly saved by the bell. I can switch to focusing on math☝️ 🤓 and pretend that this 😬 awkward 😬 conversation never happened. 

I cruise through the day until lunch. As I'm unpacking my ✨aesthetic bento box✨ and my ✨AESTHETIC 40-OUNCE STANLEY 😈 ✨ Hannah points out the stain on my ✨lululemon leggings 😩 ✨ I get 😳 embarrassed 😳 and run to the bathroom to 😭 cRY AEstHetiCaLlY 😭 After five minutes of 😭 CrYinG AEsTheTiCallY 😭 Hannah comes in.

"Are you okay?" She asks, as if it wasn't obvious I'M NOT OKAY 😭 

"Yeah I'm fine." I lie.

"Stop lying to me." Hannah says, handing me her spare pair of ✨lululemon leggings ✨ to wear and a pad.

"I thought you said you didn't have your period?" I say

"Preppies should always be prepared 😌" she says.

"omg tysm 🥺" I say. I roll my eyes at myself for forgetting that. 

"You're welcome 🤗" Hannah says. We go back to lunch and take ✨aesthetic photos✨ for our wieiad videos. (Again, so much work 😩 my mother does not even notice how I give all my time to my lOvElY 🥰 bEaUtiFul 🤩 pRePpiEs 🎀)  

"I feel like everyone makes a big deal of this 😣" I say, "but I don't even feel any pain 🤔"

"You think they're making it up? 😲" Hannah asks

"No, I think they're just a little ✨extra✨" I say, "like, it might hurt a little bit for them... but like...it can't be that bad, can it?" 

"Omg you're so right 😮" Hannah says, "like if you're in pain take some Tylenol... don't complain about it 😩" 

~one month later~

Hannah still seems to think periods aren't painful, but she hasn't even had one she doesn't get an opinion 😡  Meanwhile I am curled up in a ball trying not to cry from the pain, and I took Tylenol too but the pain won't go away 😩.