I+K (Part-2)
(A/N: Yes no one asked for more, but here you go anyway. Cheesy one-shot, part-two circa. 2017. I apologize in advance for all the cringey things 17 year old me was writing. I apologize for implying that menstruating beings were all women, I wasn't as informed as I am now. I'm sorry for even implying that people who did not bleed weren't women. After all the JKR fiasco, I understand a lot better as to how hurtful labelling people like that, can be. I have edited it, but please feel free to point out anything else that might be offensive that my dumbass might have missed.)
I stared at the red drops of liquid that were slowly getting diluted with the water in the toilet bowl.
‘It's red.’ Pointed out my subconscious.
‘No shit, Sherlock.’ I bit back.
‘It might be blood.’
‘Might be? What else could it be?’ I wondered.
Suddenly it hit me like a ton of bricks in the face.
‘Oh my god, you're dying’ Screamed my brain.
‘Oh my god, I just started my period!’ I countered doing a small victory dance.
‘Oh my god, I just started my period!’ I countered doing a small victory dance.
I'd finally gotten my period. That meant I wasn't a freak of nature. My mother had been right, I was just a late bloomer.
I was so excited, this meant I was finally all grown-up!
I didn't have to worry about being a medical enigma or a circus sideshow.
I didn't have to worry about being an outcast in society. I was a normal person like everyone else.
I was jarred out of my thoughts by a knock on the bathroom door.
“Isa? Are you still alive?” called out a concerned voice.
I didn't have to worry about being a medical enigma or a circus sideshow.
I didn't have to worry about being an outcast in society. I was a normal person like everyone else.
I was jarred out of my thoughts by a knock on the bathroom door.
“Isa? Are you still alive?” called out a concerned voice.
“What is it?” I grumbled, annoyed at being interrupted.
“Oh thank God! I'd started to fear that you were attacked by the toilet bowl and were dead by now.” answered the voice, heavy with sarcasm and impatience.
“Of course not. You moron. How did you even get into my house?”
My mother wasn't home and neither had I left the door open. How had Kai gotten into my house?
“I know where you keep your spare key, duh.” Kai answered as if it was obvious.
I had a small flashback of my mother telling Kai that the spare key was stuck under the doormat with duct tape and he could use it during emergencies. It had been her way of telling Kai that she trusted him and that he better be careful because she was officially acknowledging his existence as my first boyfriend ever.
If she were ever to catch me, sobbing and eating all the ice-cream in the pantry on a random Wednesday, hidden under the dining table instead of sitting at the table, with all kinds of random pieces of paper flying around (me doing homework, of course) she knew who to dig a grave for in our backyard.
“Ugh.” I groaned, both in annoyance and pain as a sudden cramp hit me.
Okay, I decided, maybe this isn't as good as I thought it was.
“Woman? Are you going to come out? I really have to pee.” whispered an embarrassed sounding Kai, through the wooden door.
“Yeah, okay. Gimme a second.” I answered, my words sounding breathless with the sudden pain I was in.
Okay. Maybe you were right. I admitted to my subconscious. I am dying.
I straightened my shirt and struggled to the door trying to stop myself from collapsing onto the floor.
“Of course not. You moron. How did you even get into my house?”
My mother wasn't home and neither had I left the door open. How had Kai gotten into my house?
“I know where you keep your spare key, duh.” Kai answered as if it was obvious.
I had a small flashback of my mother telling Kai that the spare key was stuck under the doormat with duct tape and he could use it during emergencies. It had been her way of telling Kai that she trusted him and that he better be careful because she was officially acknowledging his existence as my first boyfriend ever.
If she were ever to catch me, sobbing and eating all the ice-cream in the pantry on a random Wednesday, hidden under the dining table instead of sitting at the table, with all kinds of random pieces of paper flying around (me doing homework, of course) she knew who to dig a grave for in our backyard.
“Ugh.” I groaned, both in annoyance and pain as a sudden cramp hit me.
Okay, I decided, maybe this isn't as good as I thought it was.
“Woman? Are you going to come out? I really have to pee.” whispered an embarrassed sounding Kai, through the wooden door.
“Yeah, okay. Gimme a second.” I answered, my words sounding breathless with the sudden pain I was in.
Okay. Maybe you were right. I admitted to my subconscious. I am dying.
I straightened my shirt and struggled to the door trying to stop myself from collapsing onto the floor.
I threw it open and promptly collapsed into a warm pair of arms that had caught me in time as I was hit by another strong wave of pain.
“Owww.” I howled out, my teeth gritted with pain and eyes screwed shut.
“Isa! Hey sugar, what's wrong?” asked the concerned sounding voice of my saviour.
I cracked an eye open, ready to give a dramatic explanation and rant about the situation until I realized that this might be a bit awkward for us.
I mean, we were yet to broach the topic of monthly flows and reproduction despite having dated for a year and a half now.
Of course we'd talked about it but it had all been in the scientific sense and back in the time when I lacked firsthand experience of the crimson wave. But this would be WAY different.
“Uh.Kai, don't you have to use the washroom?” I asked, trying to put away the question for later but he was having none of it as he gently helped me sit down on the carpeted floor and sat in front of me, arms crossed waiting for an explanation.
“Can you sit up?” he asked, his brow creased with concern and worry. I nodded feeling the need to smooth out the worry lines with my fingers.
He gently swatted my hands away from his face out of habit. “Now tell me. What’s wrong? Are you alright? Is your stomach upset? What did you have for lunch? Do we need to call your mom?” he went on, hyperventilating and bombarding me with a million questions per minute!
I blinked at him a bit stunned that this was the same guy who had the reputation of being the ‘Ice Princess’ at school. You couldn't go five feet without hearing a random person gossiping about Kai and his apparently heartless self.
I mean I knew all the gossip was 98% rumours concocted by the over-creative minds of bored teenagers and a 2% the warped version of the truth.
I, having known him forever, knew for a fact that he broke Justin Luca’s arm in 8th grade and not five of his ribs as the popular rumour suggested. But I'd barely ever seen him get very worried for a person who wasn't his mother or baby brother.
My jaw must have been hanging open in surprise because he gently closed my mouth before eyeing me with a hint of fear.
What is HE afraid of? I wondered, still gawking at him.
“Losing you.” he said softly, answering my unspoken question.
“I'm fine. You don't have to panic.” I assured him, giving him a small smile.
I was nowhere near sure when the cramps would stop or what I had to do to soothe the pain I was in, but I couldn't worry the life out of Kai. I loved him way too much to do that.
He didn't look convinced and started to protest but I shut him up and got up to call my mother. Hopefully she'd be free enough to pick up and tell me what to do.
“Isa!” he whined, following me like a puppy. “I can tell when you are lying to me. Your nose starts twitching, you know.”
“No it doesn't.” I retorted as a sudden image of my nose twitching and falling off conjured up in my mind. I made a face, Bellamort wasn't even as nice a name as Voldemort.
I turned to throw back a glare at him and let out a small yelp instead.
He'd sneaked up on me in that one moment I had been too distracted to notice and proceeded to toss me across his shoulder.
“HEY!” I protested, struggling in his arms as I hung upside down across his back.
I realised this wasn't an ideal position to be in with the cramps and everything. It was making me nauseous and dizzy. And I groaned out in discomfort.
“I won't put you down unless you tell me what’s wrong.” he demanded, his hands tightening across the back of my legs.
Desperate and dizzy, I reached out and slapped his butt with all the strength I could muster. He let out a yelp and almost let go of me.
“You crazy, crazy woman!” he yelled, sounding peeved.
“Let me go you moronic chimp!” I growled back, renewing my struggle to get off him.
“Hey, easy there tiger.” he chuckled, when I slipped out of his arms and slid across his front as a result of my thrashing.
“Hey, easy there tiger.” he chuckled, when I slipped out of his arms and slid across his front as a result of my thrashing.
“Did you just laugh at me?” I burst out, for some reason completely unknown to me.
I was furious. How dare he? Barked my subconscious snappily.
I usually don't take offense that easily because Kai was a person obsessed with teasing and pranking people and never, ever let an opportunity go to waste. But today was different.
“Oi Isa! Calm down. What is wrong with you today? You are acting like my mother at the time of her month.” he complained, letting me go and holding his arms up in a supplicatory gesture.
Only if you knew how right you are at the moment. I thought to myself before bursting into tears.
I was in pain and this moronic chimp was being a pain in the butt. He was stunned with my sudden outburst and stood frozen, in a confused silence.
“You moronic chimp! You...you,” I blubbered. “How could you??”
“What? I swear to god I didn't eat your Cornflakes. Okay, I may have eaten a few but, come on. You ate all my Mars bars the day before yesterday.” he defended.
Wait, what? He ate my Cornflakes? Hollered my subconscious, going completely off tangent for a second.
Only if you knew how right you are at the moment. I thought to myself before bursting into tears.
I was in pain and this moronic chimp was being a pain in the butt. He was stunned with my sudden outburst and stood frozen, in a confused silence.
“You moronic chimp! You...you,” I blubbered. “How could you??”
“What? I swear to god I didn't eat your Cornflakes. Okay, I may have eaten a few but, come on. You ate all my Mars bars the day before yesterday.” he defended.
Wait, what? He ate my Cornflakes? Hollered my subconscious, going completely off tangent for a second.
“No.” I whined back. “ I need to tell you something.”
“Huh? Please don't say it. I don't want us to break up over Cornflakes. I'll buy you a new packet.” he begged, alarmed.
“Not that. You idiot.”
“What is it then?” he asked, warily.
“Huh? Please don't say it. I don't want us to break up over Cornflakes. I'll buy you a new packet.” he begged, alarmed.
“Not that. You idiot.”
“What is it then?” he asked, warily.
“I….I…..just….I,” I stuttered nervously.
“You what?” his voice had gone dangerously low, like the silence before a thunderstorm.
“Ifinallygotmyperiod!” I answered, my words coming out in a hasty rush. I sounded like a mad, squeaking hamster.
“What?” he was baffled, “I didn't catch any of that. Could you calm down a bit, sugar? And go a bit slower?”
I sighed and repeated myself looking at everything but his face. I could feel my face slowly heating up, and my cheeks burn.
Instantaneous combustion alert!! Please evacuate the building. Moaned my subconscious, embarrassed.
For a minute, none of us spoke and the only sound that could be heard was my phone, faintly ringing from my room.
Before I could decide between dealing with the situation at hand or picking up my phone, I was engulfed in a warm hug.
Startled, it took me a moment to gather my thoughts and hug him back.
Being way taller, Kai buried his chin in my hair and I nestled into his chest, breathing in his familiar scent.
“Isa?”
“Huh?"
“Congratulations, sugar. You are all grown up now. I'm proud of you.” Kai murmured into my hair.
Planting another kiss on my forehead, he stepped away far enough for me to be able to look him in the eye.
“You sound like my mother.” I remarked with a small smile.
“You were acting like mine, a few minutes ago.” he pointed out, grinning.
“Touché.” I agreed.
“So, now what?” he asked, looking at me like I'd just popped out of the earth for the first time.
“Now comes the pain and the suffering and more stolen mars bars!” I admitted.
“Okay. We'll do this together. I'm here for you, forever.” he offered enthusiastically.
I smiled in reply.
Oh! I was so madly in love with this kid. What would I ever do without him? ❤
(This was my idea of a cute, cheesy romance back in the day. It has evolved over time and I assure you that I believe in healthy consent and not patronizing women for bleeding also it's not something to be embarrassed about. I was really influenced by all the 'bad-boy' Wattpad fiction I was reading back then, which isn't always the healthiest representation of relationships and I just wanted to acknowledge that here. Also if it wasn't obvious already, I'm trying my hand at creating blog banners because I need practice making book covers too and I know they're terrible right now, but I need the practice. Feel free to tell me how I can make those better.)
For more weird stuff, feel free to check out my stories at: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Mnemoyne
CopyrightⒸ2020 Mnemoyne
(This was my idea of a cute, cheesy romance back in the day. It has evolved over time and I assure you that I believe in healthy consent and not patronizing women for bleeding also it's not something to be embarrassed about. I was really influenced by all the 'bad-boy' Wattpad fiction I was reading back then, which isn't always the healthiest representation of relationships and I just wanted to acknowledge that here. Also if it wasn't obvious already, I'm trying my hand at creating blog banners because I need practice making book covers too and I know they're terrible right now, but I need the practice. Feel free to tell me how I can make those better.)
For more weird stuff, feel free to check out my stories at: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Mnemoyne
CopyrightⒸ2020 Mnemoyne
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