Tarini A • Tamil Nadu, India • 15
So we had our half yearly exams. I remember that me and my best friend got our first period on the same day. Luckily she found out in school, but I only found out after I got home. So it was our last exam before Pooja holidays and we were asked to leave sooner because some kind of local revolt.
Before the exams started, my best friend told me that her underwear was bloody. She didn't know that it was her periods at that time, but I did, thanks to my mom who is a doctor! So I teased her that she got cancer and was gonna die soon. She believed! But then later I told her the truth. And when I got home, I saw my underwear was bloody too. (P.S. I remember I wore white underwear then, and that was the last time I wore a white one!) Of course, I knew what was happening, but I did not know what to do next.
My mom told me about periods but she never told me about pads. So I just changed my underwear and went to sleep, praying that all this should be some kind of dream. (Let's face it! I was in 6th grade back then and I didn't expect my periods to come too soon. So it was like a nightmare!) But when I woke up, there was blood all over my bed. And again I went to sleep!
As my mom is a doctor and there was a local riot that day, she was stuck in the hospital until 8 pm. My dad was a doctor too, so I was on my own until they came home, and all the while it was the same routine. I woke up, changed my underwear, changed the bedspread and went to sleep. And finally when my mom did arrive, I told her and she was as shocked! (P.S. By the time my mom arrived, I had stained almost all the underwear I had.)
