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The two siblings woke up from a long night in the Dream World. She got out of bed before her older brother could even roll over to the other side of the bed. However, something about her was off. As soon as she got up, her stomach began to hurt pretty bad. She thought nothing of it though.
Izzie has been feeling weird for the rest of that day. Something was off, but she had no idea what. She told her papá that her stomach hurt and he gave her some medicine and packed some crackers in her backpack.
But still, her stomach hurt and something felt really off. During lunch break she quickly ran to the bathroom with a pack of tissues. Once in the stall, she lowered her pants, only to notice something weird.
On her underwear was a small, dark red spot right in the middle. She immediately figured that that spot was blood. And as any 11 year old would do, she immediately associated blood with injury. Subsequently, she associated blood from her unmentionable as an internal injury. And her papá said that an internal injury meant that something was extremely wrong.
Out of sheer fear, she screamed. She was so scared. She thought that this is the end and that she was dying right there on the toilet seat. Should she go to the nurse? Should she tell Mateo? Thoughts were just whirling in her head until:
"Iz? Is that you?" someone was talking to her from outside of the stall. She immediately recognized the voice as the rather dumb friend she had who would always get into some sort of trouble. "Logan! I really need your help! I think I-I'm dying!" her voice came off as really shaky. She hasn't even noticed that she has been crying the entire time.
"What? What happened?" Logan was asking her, getting very concerned. They were the only girls in the bathroom at that time as everyone else was in the cafeteria. "My stomach hurts really bad and there's blood on... on my underwear!" she cringed a bit as she mentioned that last part, but that was the most concerning part for her!
Logan quickly realized what was happening to her friend. She was still pretty new to this stage in her life, but her mothers have both explained everything to her in great detail waaay before her first period so that she wasn't afraid.
"Iz, take a deep breath." she tried to comfort the younger girl as best as she could. Now, how was she gonna explain everything her mothers told her to her scared friend without getting extremely awkward? She guessed the first thing to do was get the obvious out of the way:
"Look, there's nothing wrong with you! You're not dying." nailed it. "It's just that... once a month girls bleed from their... you know." she was trying SO HARD not to explain using the technical terms. Izzie was even more confused than before. Logan took her silence as a reason to elaborate further.
"You bleed cause of, like, puberty and stuff. And it's totally rigged cause you only have it if you have girl parts." the older girl was now leaning onto the stall door. That reassured Izzie a bit. "Then I need to learn to hold it in, don't I?"
Aw man, she forgot that she had to explain that. "You have to put something on your underwear to... catch.. it?" oh man.... this is genuinely getting way too cringe for Logan to handle...
"Like a cup?" Logan wished that Izzie magically knew everything she was talking about without having to explain it. "No, It's like.. uh.. think of a diaper, but smaller and thinner.". Logan figured that she had to shut up and just give Izzie a pad. Luckily, the bathroom had a basket full of them. She slid one under the door for her friend.
"You take off the sheet parts and put the sticky side on your underwear." she said, feeling as she's done with explaining stuff and pulled out her phone just to scroll mindlessly.
Izzie did as her friend told her, cringing at the loud sound of the pad opening. She sticked it to her underwear and pulled her pants back up.
As soon as she got out of the stall she pulled Logan into a hug for helping her. Logan just dismissed her and said it was okay.