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Seriously?

It's 4:30 a.m. in the morning, and Salish was already awake for a while. She has horrible cramps but has not gotten her period yet. Those – as she already knew – were just "warning cramps." Those cramps are killing me, she thought, but she still somehow managed to fall back asleep.

2 hours later, she woke up with a sticky feeling between her legs. Oh crap! Why didn't I think of that and put a pad on earlier?! If there was one thing Salish Matter absolutely hates, then it's her period. She always got THE WORST cramps ever! Getting her period was one thing for her, but having to share the bedroom and the bathroom with Nidal Wonder during that time was another thing. Salish and Nidal  were havinga sleep over, even though no one really got it, how her father let her

Now, here were her once white sheets turned into the freaking Japanese flag, and her stomach was killing her. Shit! Not now! I really need to get a pad - come on, Nidal! She hammered with both hands against the door and yelled: "Nidal, open the door!" but he just answered: "It's my bathroom as well! I just need 10 more minutes, relax!" I can't relax," Salish  thought, but she was too embarrassed to tell Nidal  the reason why she immediately needed to go to the bathroom. So what should I do in the next 10 minutes? I can't just stand here and bleed everywhere. Then she suddenly realized she probably had a pad in her commode, where she stores all her parchment and old quills. She runs upstairs, felling the blood running down her inner legs. Shit! She is in such a hurry that she nearly fell. She opens the drawer too quickly, and everything falls out, but she doesn't care. Hectically, she looks for a pad. Finally! There it is. She rans to an other bathroom in the house

All the hectic, finding a pad, made her forget about the cramps, but know that she is saved from bleeding everywhere, the pain returns even harder. She groans and presses her hands in the abdominal area to relieve the pain a little. She looks in her nightstand for some of the pain relieving l magazine and realizes in a moment of shock that the bottle of pills is empty. A tear finds its way down her cheek. Don't cry, Salish, don't cry she said to herself. She wipes away the tears with her pajama sleeve and goes downstairs in the hope that the nidal  has already left the bathroom and is in his dormitory to get dressed. As she walks to the bathroom, she looks at the floor, thinking to herself that she has to ask her father to text her mother so that she could ask her mother to get her more pain relievers, as she bumps into Nidal who just came out of the bathroom. "The bathroom is free now. You can go." Nidal says as she realizes that he is wearing nothing but a towel tied around his waist. "And don't rush me next time. You always take much longer than me. I should be the one complai…" he added, but stops as he sees Salish's pale face, with signs of tears on her cheeks and in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" he asked gently, but she just pushed him aside and made her way into the bathroom.