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Surprise

The worst thing about being a girl is your monthly surprise. It can be good at times, you know, like so you know you're not pregnant? But I'm not sexually active so its just a pain in the ass!

Stomach pains, irritability, random cravings and just straight up feeling like shit. Not that I don't feel like shit on a daily but physically feeling like shit just sucks. It's a mess. Why can't guys have periods and babies? Girls are just so unlucky.

When I first got my period I thought I was dying.

-Flashback-

It was a bright, sunny Wednesday morning and I got ready for

School like every other day. I woke up with the worst stomachache ever and it was a pain I could not describe. I was actually having these pain for about a week and I didn't tell my dad because he was barely home. I thought maybe it was just type of stomach flu going around. I hadn't heard of anything going around but I wanted some form of comfort, so I made up something to tame my fear.

I started coming up with weird ideas after awhile. Like, maybe I was dying. Maybe the kids at school somehow poisoned my food and I was soon to die. Or maybe I swallowed a bug in my sleep and is was eating me inside out. I have never felt this pain and I didn't know what to do. I could of called my grandma but it never came to mind.

I picked out my regular attire and went to take a quick shower before school. I brushed my hair and teeth before I got a towel and washrag. I stripped from my clothes and stepped in the shower. Since it was early morning, I put it mostly on the hot side. My dad didn't care then how I took a shower. He was into his own little world to care about the things around him.

He was depressed and just felt completely lost. He cared about nothing and certainly not me.

I first washed my hair out with my lovely Peach smelling shampoo. I grabbed my washrag and put some liquid body wash on it and scrubbed it all around on the rag. I started washing my arms and go down to my feet. Once I got to a certain point, I looked at the tub floor. I seen red being washed down the drain and I started to worry. Maybe it was just a cut. Not think much more about it, I finish washing my body and got out. I grabbed my white towel, dried my hair a little, and dried my body.

I was about to throw my towel in the hamper but it was red. I was really worried then and I started to look where I was bleeding from. I look from top to bottom and a little streak of blood was running down my leg. I screamed and put the towel around me and ran to the phone. I dialed my grandma's number. It rang twice before she finally picked up. "Ma, something's wrong!" I rushed out as fast as I could. "I'm dying!"

"Slow down, sweetie! Alright, take a deep breath, calm down, and tell me what's wrong slowly," I took a deep breath and told her again.

"Something's wrong! I think I'm dying. I think I swallowed a bug and its eating me alive!", I all but screamed at her. Yeah we learned about periods in health class but it grossed me out to the point of tuning it all out. That and I was to busy in my daydreams anyways. A lot was going on in the time and I needed to get away. Whether it was drawing or just daydreaming about anything and everything. Not caring what I was suppose to be listening to, I did it.

Yeah, I was fourteen but my mother didn't have hers till she was older. My mother didn't get around to tell me about it. She never thought about it, she thought I was going to be a late bloomer. My aunt and her where late bloomers, so she thought I would be.

Well, obviously not! I really thought I was dying. Especially since we've been watching videos in science on parasites and how they can attack your body. I was truly scared out of my mind and now I just laugh about it.