Me and my older brother Kyle had always been close, he was three years older than me but we got along great. Still things changed one night when my mom came into my Room. You see Kyle had been feeling odd for a few weeks so they had gone to the doctor that morning and now I was getting the news.
It all used to be so simple, me and my buddy Ted. We’ve known each other since we were just little kids playing in the sandbox. We went to school together, hung out together, grew up together through good times and bad.
After Debra rang me up I took a tiny pink bag containing my new bra outside of the store where Chelsea was waiting for me.
“How’d it go?” She asked.
“Fine, can we go now?” I responded, wanting to get as far away from this place as possible.
“You don’t even have it on?”
“No, I didn’t feel like it.”
“Okay fine, you don’t have to wear it, but I bought you an outfit I thought you’d look great in!” She smiled, handing me a shopping bag.
“Seriously?” I asked.
“Just give it a shot.”
Later on I’d continued to argue with my Dad, specifically about him making me buy a bra tomorrow, but he was adamant. My sister Chelsea told me they weren’t so bad, which was the attitude she took to almost everything I had to adapt to since the changes started. She was supportive of me and sympathized with me, but I knew she kind of liked it all too. It gave her the opportunity to be a good big sister. She was the only girl in the family since our mother died. When I had my first period last month, Chelsea actually cried and hugged me before giving me a tampon.
I woke up with excitement, I had been looking forward to this day for weeks, my cousin Matt was coming to visit. I hadn’t seen Matt for a few years, we’re the same age and we were close as kids but when his dad got a new job and he moved to a different state we lost touch. The other day though he shot me an email saying he would be back in town to look at some colleges and wanted to hang out and catch up. I was really excited I had stories to tell and couldn’t wait to catch up with him. He gave me his number and said he’d call when he was at my house.
That prick Raymond just would not believe me.
“Get away from me freak.” Dennis yelled at Parker as they were in the locker room getting changed after gym “I don’t wanna catch your weird freak disease.”