“I worked at a summer program as an instructor with one of my best friends. We sat in silence for the rest of the bus ride.” When I turned back to look at her, her shirt was buttoned back up. I think she realized what had happened when she suddenly stopped talking. I remember being so embarrassed for her that as she was talking, I couldn’t look at her. As she was talking to me her shirt started unbuttoning until it was completely open. It was really fun at first, because she was the first girl that really ever took an interest in me, but then things got weird. So we decided that when our field trip came to go to Six Flags we would sit next to each other the whole ride there. “In sixth or seventh grade, I remember liking this girl and she had the biggest thing for me. What’s even worse is she had to help clean myself up afterwards.” I was so embarrassed and squatted my way out of the classroom with one of my friends covering me. But once biology class ended and I got up to leave, blood ran down both of my legs and even got onto other student’s book bags. All day I was fine and felt no sudden outbursts even when sneezing. But I figured since it was almost towards the end and it was pretty light, I could stick in a tampon, throw on some underwear and be set. “It was really hot out one day when I was a junior in high school, and I really wanted to wear this new dress I got. Now it would be a blessing if she’d walk away from me indignantly and leave me in my own puddle of shame but she keeps walking next to me asking me all sorts of questions and offering thirty minutes of conversation!” Desperate to make conversation in the awkward silence I say, “So your due any day now huh?” She says, “No, I’m not pregnant, just fat”. She asks me where the bus stop is and I’m going that direction anyway so I offer to walk some of the way with my new helpless, pregnant friend. So feeling like a helpful know it all, I ask her if she’s lost. She’s got her hands on her lower back and her belly out. “I was walking on campus and I see this young woman looking lost.
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