Chapter 78 – Menarche
“Wha-, what do you mean?”
I couldn’t understand Xiao Qin’s ambiguous statement.
“I’m bleeding…”
“Where? You don’t look like you have an injury!”
“Botto-…, I’m bleeding from the bottom…”
After embarrassingly squeezing out those words, she buried her face in her arms.
After a while, she peeked one eye out, trying to see my reaction.
How should I even react? What do you mean you are bleeding from the bottom… are you on your period?! Don’t tell boys that! Go talk to the class leader, loud mouth, and the others to discuss a solution! I don’t have any experience in this area!
The reason why I knew about periods was because of all the sanitary pad commercials on TV, and we just learned about it in health class! I heard it was horrible! The commercials would always show a female actor with a full-face smile, and they would be either skiing or swimming, it’s all a bunch of lies! When it’s that time of month, it’s not only inconvenient for the females, but their tempers would also explode.
Also, why does it feel like I’ve just received the final blow. Here I was, with still some hope that the Little Tyrant wasn’t a girl. I’m so devastated! My long time goal of claiming victory in battle has now been reduced to protecting the female protagonist!
“Ow (gt; _lt;), ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ~~~ Ye Lin classmate, what should I do…”
Xiao Qin asked while groaning.
“How should I know! Do whatever you need to do! I don’t have any experience!”
Xiao Qin made a bitter face: “But, I have no experience either!”
You don’t have any experience? What does that mean? Are you telling me that this is your first period?
Stop lying! Modern children have an excess supply of nutrition, and many girls had their first periods in elementary school! Who has their first period in second year of junior high!
Last time, when I went to rescue Brother Optimus Prime from your home, I was tricked, and ended up hugging a box of sanitary pads!
“Hey, are you telling me that box of sanitary pads weren’t yours?”
“That… it’s a box I borrowed from my mother, it was used by her…”
So the box of sanitary pads that I carried all the way home wasn’t yours, but Auntie Ren’s? Why does it feel even more humiliating?
“Ye Lin classmate, after class ends can you help me buy a pack of pads…”
Xiao Qin looked at me and pleaded.
“Who wants to buy that kind of stuff for you! You didn’t bring any?”
“Because it’s my first time, I didn’t prepare for it…”
“I still can’t help you buy it! It’s too humiliating for a boy! Go talk to the class leader, she’ll think of a solution!”
Xiao Qin groaned again, this time with a long moan, indicating that she couldn’t take it anymore.
“I,… I don’t want to tell the class leader, if she knew that I had my first period this late, she would laugh at me!”
Who would laugh at you! Furthermore, aren’t you great at lying! Why do you have to tell her the truth that this is your first time!
Did you want to carry out the plan that you spoke of, pretending to be an innocent girl in front of the class leader, deliberately exposing various weaknesses, waiting for her to take advantage of you?
“Y-Ye Lin classmate, can you help me borrow a sanitary pad from the class leader…”
“Borrow? How do you know that the class leader has sanitary pads?”
Xiao Qin reluctantly squeezed out a miserable smile.
“When I was eating with everyone last week, I heard that the class leader was on her period, and it shouldn’t have ended yet…”
Damn you! Not only did you tell me your period secrets, you even told me the class leader’s too!
So it seems a few days ago the class leader was on her period? Was that why she was more violent than usual, and inflicted physical pain on me?
But if I go to the class leader to borrow sanitary pads, wouldn’t others misunderstand?
If Eunuch Cao was present, he would also add: “Class leader, my master actually wants to borrow a used sanitary napkin!”
“No! I can tell the class leader about your period, but nothing else!”
The bell was ringing at this time. I stood up and started to walk towards the class leader, but Xiao Qin stretched out one hand and grabbed my clothes.
“Y-Ye Lin classmate, not good!”
Since Xiao Qin held me back, the class leader had already left the classroom, who knows what she went to do.
“What’s wrong?”
I sat back in a bad mood.
“I… It’s going to leak!”
Xiao Qin’s face looked desperate.
“I was holding it back, that’s why blood didn’t get on my pants! I almost can’t hold it anymore!”
Mothafucka, you can hold back a period? Xiao Qin Your family’s martial arts is incredible! You can train any muscle of your body at will! Why use a sanitary pad when you can just hold it for a day!
After hearing me say she should continue to endure, Xiao Qin eyes had tears of grievances.
“Ye Lin classmate is too unreasonable! I’m your childhood, if I’m in a crisis, you’re just going to stand there and watch?!”
Hmph, a childhood that abused me for N years, and you expect me to help? You would be lucky if I don’t push you down when you’re standing on a cliff.
I took a look at her and gave her a tacit approval.
“Boohoo~~~~~Ye Lin classmate is too cruel! I’m going to drown in a bloody hell, yet he doesn’t care at all!”
“Bloody hell my ass! Even if all the girls in the class were on their periods, it’s impossible to have a bloody hell! Don’t pull on my clothes! What do you want?”
“Oh, it hurts, I can’t think anymore… Sanitary pads, band-aids are also fine! Help me think of something!”
“Go buy those shameful things yourself!”
“But the store is on the first floor, and the women’s washroom is in the opposite direction. I’ll die halfway! I’ll definitely die!”
This was true. After you buy sanitary napkins, you have to use them in the women’s restroom. I neglected this fact and thought it would be over once you bought them.
I hesitated, and Xiao Qin’s expression became more and more painful, she was indeed pitiful.
But it’s too embarrassing for a boy to buy sanitary pads! If I bought it, my position in the class will plummet!
Xiao Qin saw me hesitating, so she clenched her teeth and ruthlessly said:
“If you don’t buy it, I’ll tell the class leader that you made me bleed down there…”
God damn it, you can’t say this kind of stuff willy-nilly! The class leader will definitely kill me! She would pull the trigger and splatter my brains on the white classroom walls!
I weighed the pros and cons. I had no alternative but to buy pads for her. I told her to let go of my clothes.
“Are you really going to go? Don’t lie? Pinky swear!”
While speaking, she stuck out the pinky finger of her left hand.
“Who’s going to pinky swear! Are you still in kindergarten! If I said I’m going, then I’m going! I’m not going to go if you keep bothering me!”
Xiao Qin stuck out her tongue and let me go.
The auntie who ran the commissary and the auntie of the canteen were sisters, both of whom looked like Rong MoMo. I don’t know why both of them hated me.
There weren’t many people buying things at this time. I stood behind the glass display case and stared at the sanitary napkins on the bottom row. I didn’t know how to open it.
“Stop looking kid, we don’t sell condoms here.”
The auntie squinted and looked at me like I was a fly.
I was mad to the point of exploding.
“Why do you think I came to buy condoms!”
Don’t look down on people! If I wanted a condom, there was a whole box of interesting ones at home! We even have spiral spiky ones! Yesterday I also shipped some!
“We don’t have contraceptives either.”
Damn, if I’m not buying condoms, then I’m getting contraceptives? Don’t just put me in a playboy role! I am a innocent boy who has yet to touch a girl’s chest!
“Do you have.. sanitary napkins?”
I forcefully squeezed out the sentence.
“For your girlfriend? Do you not know the school prohibits relationships?”
“It’s not for my girlfriend! I’m buying it for a female classmate! I’m learning from Lei Feng and performing good deeds!”
Rong MoMo looked at me with disdain and had no intention of selling me sanitary pads.
I was in a panic, the time between classes were short. In case Xiao Qin thinks that I broke my promise and told the class leader I made her bleed, I will soon have a tragic end.
“I don’t care what you think, hurry up and sell it to me! Even if I’m not buying it for a female classmates, I can still use it myself! I have terrible bleeding from hemorrhoids and thought I would try it after seeing some commercials, is that wrong? I also have foot sweat and want to use it as a cushion to soak up sweat. Hurry up and sell it to me!”
Two girls came from behind and wanted to buy something. After hearing me shout out those words, they could barely hold in their laughter.
I’ve lost all my face today because of Xiao Qin.
Finally, I received the pack of sanitary pads. I was afraid that it would be seen, so I immediately put it in my uniform jacket.
I returned to the classroom with a big belly.
Seeing that I was back, Xiao Qin was like a baby looking at her mother.
“Thank you… I thought… I was going to die… Although it’s a bit presumptuous, but Ye Lin classmate, can you support me to the restroom?”
I couldn’t refuse due to her weak expressions.
Forget it, everyone already knew that Xiao Qin was weak. I don’t think there would be that much gossip if her childhood friend took her to the bathroom..
Moreover, Xiao Qin has already spread tons of BS before. Stuff like I won’t get married to anyone but you. How many more rumors can we still make?
So in the astonished eyes of our classmates, I held onto Xiao Qin’s arm and helped her out of the classroom.