Maddie L • USA • 13
In the fourth grade, all of my friends got their periods except for me. I was obsessed with getting mine. I had a thing of pads in my bag and really wanted to get it. Fast forward to my thirteenth birthday. It was the best day ever. I got to spend it with my dad and mom and it was all around great. Well four days after, I had a little visitor. My PERIOD.
Now me being a newly teen girl, I thought it was spotting up until it lasted a few days. I never told my dad about my real first period because I didn't think he would believe me and I thought it would magically stop the next day. It didn't. But it wasn't bad either to be honest.
Fast forward about 2 months later. I get it again and I just play it off as my first and told my dad. He still doesn't know the truth. But he told my mom and my mom told her friend! So that was great. (Sarcasm!)
Another story I have is the one time I missed my period for three months (since I missed it for so long, it was extremely heavy when it came back.) It was awful. I went to the toilet and saw it and it wasn't that bad so I didn't even wear a pad or anything. Well I woke up and not only was it snowing in Texas, but I had blood all over myself. I took a shower and I felt better.
That's not it though. I had some U by Kotex Totally Teen pads and leaked through those in five minutes and ran out. So I went to the corner store and got some off-brand ones and leaked through those. Needless to say, I slept on a towel that night and in the morning my dad got me some maxi pads. The end.
