I was on IM with my friend Leah, and then I had to pee and then I wiped myself, and then I saw what I thought was discolored pee and then I called my mom, and then she came into the small hot bathroom with me, and I showed her, and she told me what I feared – I had my period. “Did I really get it?” I kept asking, not realty believing it, sort of sad about it. “When will it be over”?

---JCP