My parents are divorced, and I live with my mom, but I spend time with my dad as well. When I was in the sixth grade, he decided to take me to a movie, I don't remember which one, but I just know we went to a movie. Anyhoo, after the movie, he was going to stop at his house to get some things and then I felt something wet down there, but I just brushed it off. He needed to go to the store after the stop at his house, to get some batteries, and then he yelled out loud, "Hey, (my name here)! What's that red stuff on your shorts?" To make it worse, my crush and his mom were in the store too. I said, real quietly, "Wait here, I will be right back." I excused myself to the bathroom to see what it was and it turned out that I had started my period, and I didn't keep track, and that's what I got for not keeping track. There was nothing I could do because I was wearing white shorts and didn't have any pads with me, and the bathrooms didn't have any pads or tampons either. Well, I went back and caught up with my dad and then he bought his batteries and he took me back to my house, except that's not all. When I got home, my mom's boyfriend Otis yelled, "Hi May (not my name, but one of my many nicknames)! You have red stuff all over your shorts!" At the time, he thought that I hadn't got my period yet, until my mom yelled, "Oh, that is just her period!" Now he looks at me funny now that he knows I am a woman.


