Lizzy sat in the bathroom stall confused and full of anxiety as she looked down at the blood pooling into the toilet.
“ This can’t be happening.” she thought to herself.
She was experiencing her first menstral cycle. Lizzy Thompson was becoming a woman.
Lizzy sighed as she began to neatly fold a wad of toilet paper to arrest some of the bleeding until she could get to the nurse’s office. She was thirteen and a late bloomer. Her mother had warned her about her period when she turned nine.
“ Elizabeth dear,” her mom called to her one afternoon. “ I think it’s time I have the talk about womanhood.”
They went for a drive and her mother nearly tramatized Lizzy with the things she told her.
“ You are about to be a woman, Elizabeth. All the women in the family started there menstral cycle at nine, honey.”
Four years went by and not a single month went by without an inquiry, followed by the same disappointed sigh and annoying comment, “You’re definitely your fathers daughter.”
Lizzy freshened up at the sink and looked at herself in the mirror. Her anxiety was at an all time high and she wanted to cry. Then she turned and headed for the door.
She opened the door just in time to see Andrew creeping up behind Timmy, bend down and with both hands yank Timmy’s pants down to his ankles, underwear and all.
Lizzy’s vision turned red and without a second thought found herself charging at Andrew full speed. She shoved him with all the momentum of her bull rush, knocking Andrew, who had turned just in time to feel Lizzy’s hands hit his chest sending him flying to the floor.
When Lizzy came to her senses she couldn’t believe what she had just done. Without any rhyme or reason she had lost control all to defend Timmy.
Andrews threat was the last thing on her mind as the rest of the day went on. In fact, all she could think about was Timmy.
“Do I have feelings for Timmy?” she thought to herself.
“Miss Thompson, are you with us?” asked Mr Dean the math teacher.
“ uh-um, yea Mr. Dean, I’m fine” answered Lizzy.
“ Lizzy was so distracted and puzzled by her reaction earlier that day that she completely forgot to see the nurse about her ‘woman problem’
It was lunch time and the cafeteria was starting to fill with noisy sixth graders. Lizzy mindlessly wandered in line still perplexed and asking herself what it is about Timmy that she had felt so angry with Andrew picking on him.
Suddenly, a group of boys behind Lizzy collectively started pointing and shouting that Lizzy had blood coming from her ass! Lizzy was horrified! She felt like dying right there on the spot just so she wouldn’t have to deal with the humiliation and torment that she was already experiencing in spades.
As more and more students gathered to see what all the excitement was about, Andrew Wiggins chimed in and declared it a cowardly stunt she was pulling so she could escape Andrews vengeance.
“ You really would beat up a girl, so what does that make you Andrew Wiggins? That makes YOU a coward, I’d say!” Lizzy screamed back. Then she turned and ran out of the cafeteria as fast as she could.
“Why would my mom, who seemed so intent on knowing when I’d get my period not give me a tampon for this very moment ?” Lizzy thought.
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