I woke up this morning feeling a little funny. You know that feeling when you feel you are forgetting something, but don't know what exactly it is that you are missing. I woke up with that feeling. It bugged the crap out of me.

I thought about it through breakfast. I even ran through my backpack twice to make sure I brought my homework and textbooks. It kept me frazzled all morning and through all my morning class period.

It wasn't until lunchtime that I finally remembered. I stood up from my seat to put my tray away. I walked halfway and noticed people staring and snickering. At first, I brushed it off because maybe they weren't laughing at me. However, I started more stares and pointing.

Suddenly, Avery came running up to me. A horrified look on her face.

"Auntie Flo."

Those two words put fear in me. My eyes widened and my heart began racing. That was what I had forgotten. My period was coming this week, and I had worn white jeans to school today.

Immediately, one hand went behind and covered my ass. It was useless though. My ass was too big for my own good. The heat began crawling up my cheeks after I heard laughing. I would have to move away and find a different school to go to. She was my best friend and I couldn't even look at her.

Then I heard someone walking by and asking if I was bleeding out of my ass. I couldn't even look. I just wanted to cry.

This all happened in mere seconds. I couldn't think. I stood frozen to the spot. Avery looked around to see if she could use something to help me. She took the tray from my hand.

Before I could think of running, I felt someone come up from behind me. Whoever they blocked everyone's view from behind me. I tried turning around, but firm hands grabbed my upper arms. So instead, I turned my head to look behind me.

To my surprise, it was Kai. He wasn't looking at me. His eyes were on the surrounding people. There was a certain darkness to the way he looked at them. If looks could turn the temperature in the room down to freezing, I felt my skin pebble with goosebumps.

In one move, he took off his hoodie and put it over my head. I slipped my arms through the sleeves. It was a big hoodie, but it covered my butt and that was all that mattered.

Avery looked from Kai and then at me. Her mouth gaped open like a fish out of water.

"Let's go." Kai grabbed my left wrist and pulled me away.

I saw Avery tossing the tray onto a nearby table before running after us. When we were out of the cafeteria and hidden in an empty hallway, I felt the air change. I could start to think again and I freaked out the second I could.

"Oh, my god! I'm so embarrassed. I am so mad at myself." I covered my face and sobbed.

"It's alright, Tamsin. Few people saw it. Most of them were busy talking."

"But some of them did..." I cried, unwilling to show my face.

"Who gives a fuck what they think? They are a bunch of nobodies." Avery tried reassuring me. I glanced up from my hands to look at her.

She rested her arms on my shoulders and joggled me.

"What if Dean saw it?"

I heard Kai snorted, and I looked in his direction. He leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. His muscles were bulging from that. He wasn't looking at me, but looking straight ahead and out the school window.

"He saw it."

"What?" I looked at him, horrified.

"Could you not make this worse?" Avery snapped at Kai.

Kai pushed off the wall and walked over.

"Why do you care what he thinks so much? It's just a little blood. If that disgusted him already, then he's a little bitch."

"I don't care!" I snapped back.

"Right. Then why was he even asking a question?"

"You don't understand." Tears were threatening to spill at this point. I was screeching in horror earlier, but now I couldn't stop the frustration that was building up inside of me.

I took a step toward Kai and pushed him hard in the chest. He fell back a couple of steps. I wanted to punch and scream at him.

"Go away."

"You should leave, Kai." Avery moved to block me from beating up Kai. I glared at him from over her shoulder. Kai huffed and shook his head before walking off. I watched him disappear before I turned to look at Avery.

"Ok, let's go to the girl's locker room. You need a change of clothes."

Luckily, the gym lockers were not too far from the cafeteria. We made it there meeting no one. I cleaned myself up before changing into my clothes. I threw on Kai's hoodie, just in case. When I came out, I changed into my gym clothes. I sighed heavily.

"I was a bitch to Kai."

"You are a hormonal mess, but yeah, you were a total bitch."

"He just... ugh! He just makes me so mad sometimes," I growled and stomped my way to her.

She was sitting on a bench. I fell into the seat next to her.

"Yes, and he also helped you when no one did."

"I'm surprised that he did."

"I think everyone was surprised." Avery said with raised eyebrows.

I tucked my hands beneath my bottom and thought about what happened in the cafeteria. A blush still appeared on my cheek, but I'm still alive and breathing. I guess I won't die of embarrassment anytime soon.

"I can't believe I had forgotten about my period."

"It happens, girl."

There was a pause, and I knew what I had to do next. I turned to look at Avery. She was already looking at me.

"I'm going to have to apologize to him, ain't I?"

"Um, yes. He saved your ass."

I groaned and prepared myself for an apology I don't think I will ever make in my life. In fact, associating with Kai never crossed my mind. I thought going through high school for three years and avoiding any kind of conversation with him was easy. Now, it looks like I'm digging myself an even bigger hole.

Nonetheless, my parents raised me to own up to my own mistakes. I didn't see Kai the entire day. I would've tried looking for him in his classrooms, but I don't know his schedule. He didn't appear in our class together. I figured he must have skipped school or something. It didn't help at all that I was dying from a menstrual cramp. It hurt like I've been punched a million times in the stomach. I felt like vomiting.

After school ended, I walked home in the best way that I could without looking like a sick person. I was still wearing Kai's hoodie and my gym shorts. When I made it to the corner of my block, I noticed Kai's motorcycle a little down from my house. I hurried toward my house.

Kai was sitting on my porch with his arms propped on his knees. He looked up when he heard me. I walked up to him.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

Kai grabbed a brown bag sitting next to him before lifting it up for me. I took the bag from him before sitting down next to him. Opening the bag up to see the content inside, I saw he had bought me some sweet cake, chocolate, and chips. I looked up from the bag.

"Peace offering?" I questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Of course, he didn't answer me. I closed up the bag and then turned my body to face him.

"Where did you go today? I didn't see you at all in the afternoon."

"I skipped. I needed to blow off some steam."

I looked at the bag and felt instant guilt. He did nothing wrong. He helped me out today and I yelled at him.

"I'm sorry, Kai. You helped me through an embarrassing moment and instead of thanking you, I blew up. I'm normally not this bipolar and disrespectful."

One corner of his lips lifted in a smirk and a hint of a dimple appeared.

"It's the hormones."

It was a relief. He mentioned that because it wasn't just the hormones. It was the consistent pain and having to deal with the bleeding between my legs for seven days. It wasn't fun.

Both of us laughed and the tension from earlier disappeared. I'm glad he wasn't mad at me. For some reason, it didn't feel right to have him mad at me.

A strong cramp in my stomach had me bending over in pain. I couldn't help but groan and bend over. The bag of treats crushed between my stomach and legs. I focused on taking deep breaths and putting my mind somewhere else.

"What's wrong?" Kai asked.

"The joys of becoming a woman. You suffer through period cramps," I grumbled.

I lifted my head to look at him. I didn't want him to see me in this state and, honestly; I wanted to be alone. I wanted to change into baggy ass clothes and crawl into bed in a fetal position.

Kai didn't get the memo, though. He stood up and, before I knew it; he swept me into his arms. I released the bag to wrap my arms around his neck.

"Um, what the hell do you think you are doing?"

He didn't answer me. Instead, he walked to the vinyl siding and felt around. My eyes widened the second I knew what he was doing.

"W-what-how?" I stuttered. "On second thought, don't tell me. I don't want to know. It'll just creep me out."

To my surprise, Kai laughed.

"Seriously, what do you do in your free time? Break into people's homes?"

"Not necessarily. I only break into homes that house smartasses like you."

I snorted. "I'm flattered."

Kai opened the door and walked in. When he closed the door, Kai turned to look around my home again.

"Which way is your room?"

"My room?"

"Did I stutter?"

"Well, you can't go into my room. Thank you for carrying me in, but I could walk."

"Just tell me where your bedroom is, Dollface."

"No boy has entered my room before," I announced and protested.

"Good. I'll be your first." The finality in his voice had puzzled me.

Not having the energy to argue any further, I pointed in the direction of the stairs. He climbed up the carpeted steps. My home was a second story home. It wasn't an enormous home with multiple bedrooms. It's a small three-bedroom home. My parents slept on the main floor while I slept upstairs.

I pointed to the room at the far end of the hallway, then I pointed to the left. Kai carried me inside. The moment he opened the bedroom door, I looked for his reaction. My room wasn't too girly, nor was it plain. I loved sleeping with a lot of pillows on my bed.

When he saw my collection of pillows, Kai couldn't resist raising one eyebrow.

"I just like sleeping on a lot of pillows," I mumbled.

I had a collection of circulars, squares, rectangular, and triangle pillows. Most of them were fluffy and soft. I like the color green in particular. So, almost everything in my room was green.

"How do you sleep in all that mess?" he asked as he put me down on the edge of my bed.

"It's quite comfortable, actually."

Kai didn't look like he believed me. He took my bag of treats and tossed it on the nightstand. It landed with a loud thump.

"I'm serious. Lie down. You'll see." I stood up and pushed him toward my bed.

"No, you're fucking crazy."

"I'm not! Now, lie down."

"No."

"Just lie the fuck down, Kai."

"I don't like your tone."

"Fine! Don't lie down."

"You know what? I'm going to lie down."

I rolled my eyes at him. Turning around, I walked to my wooden dresser. I picked out some baggy clothes. I heard Kai fell onto my bed.

"I'm going to shower."

"You are?" I turned to see him looking at me with his elbows propped up.

"Yes. I feel icky. I need to shower and clean up." I don't know why I was so open with him. It just came out naturally.

"What about me?" he questioned.

"You could lie down and wait for me to return, or you could let yourself out and lock the front door for me," I answered before walking out of my bedroom.

I used the bathroom in the hallway. Taking a quick shower and changing my pad. After I finished showering, I threw my shorts in the garbage. I then walked downstairs to the laundry room and washed my clothes that I wore this morning—including Kai's hoodie.

Taking the steps upstairs, I walked into my bedroom and found Kai still asleep on my bed. I called his name and walked over. It wasn't until I walked close that I noticed he was fast asleep.

Great... I needed to be in bed.

Do I wake him?

But he looked so tired. There were noticeable bags beneath his eyes. You could tell he hasn't slept for days. I was in a minor dilemma here. Either I wake him up, find somewhere else to sleep, or lie down next to him. He wasn't sleeping beneath the comforter. So I could easily slip in and it would still be okay because we weren't touching. The two other ideas didn't sound appealing because I wanted to sleep in my bed.

I crawled beneath my comforter and pulled it up and over my shoulders. I turned to my side and curled my legs up. He was fast asleep on my bed. He was facing me.

Geez, did he look adorable asleep... he looked even normal. Sighing, I allowed my eyes to flutter shut. The warm-hot shower seemed to help ease the cramps in my stomach. After popping some pain pills in the bathroom after the shower, I felt slightly better.

Before I knew it, I was knocked out next to Kai.

I don't know how long we slept, but it was a good sleep.

When I woke up, it was a painful cramp in my stomach. I groaned and turned into my pillow, but I didn't make it to my pillow. I got stopped halfway. My eyes popped open immediately. I felt a sturdy pair of arms hooked over my midsection. It was holding me in place and stopping me from falling off the bed. I had slept so hard; I didn't realize I slept so close to the edge of the bed.

Memories came back, and I realized I was sleeping in bed with Kai. My eyes widened when I realized it was completely dark outside. I popped up in bed and pushed Kai away from me.

Kai rolled over and grumbled a protest. He was still asleep. I grabbed his upper arm and began shaking him.

"Get up! My parents would be home any minute now. Why didn't you go home?" I hissed.

"Relax, Dollface. It isn't like we fucked."

"Don't say that."

One pale green eye popped open. "What? Fuck?"

"You know what I mean." My stomach was twisting in pain. I wanted to cry and panic at once.

He pushed himself up into a sitting position. "Fucking is a natural thing-"

"I will not have this conversation with you."

"Fine." He leaned forward until his lips were almost brushing my ear and he whispered the word again. A shiver ran down my body and my body responded. I pushed him away in a panic because a crazy part of me wanted to jump him and feel him all over—but that was just ridiculous. Another part of me wanted to claw his eyes out for even whispering the word again to me.

"Kai-"

"Honey, your dad and I are home." My mom's voice called up the stairs.

My eyes widened. I realized I'm in a terrible situation. Kai was in my home—in my bedroom—on my bed. Oh god! My dad was going to kill me, or worse, kill Kai!

"Ok!" I shouted loud enough for her to hear.

"Are you hungry?" My mom asked.

"N-no! I am just tired and want to sleep early tonight."

"Are you okay?" My mom asked worriedly, and I realized her voice was closer.

I jumped out of bed and ran to the door. I locked it. Leaning against it, I fought to steady my voice when I answered her.

"I'm fine. Mom, I just have my period. I just want to sleep."

"Oh, well, let me know if you need anything, baby."

"Thanks, mom."

I listened to my mom's receding footsteps before turning to face Kai. He was standing up and getting ready to leave. Shaking my head, I ran over to him and grabbed his arm. I yanked him back onto the bed.

"You cannot leave," I whispered to him.

"Why not?"

"My dad will kill me or worse... kill you."

Kai broke into a smile again. The boy doesn't know what's good for him. He will die tonight if he stepped out. He needs to stay in my room.

"It's fine. I'll jump out the window."

"Are you crazy? I am on the second floor. There are no trees nearby. Whatever you watched in movies does not work here. You will have to stay until they leave in the morning."

Another cramp hit me hard, and I groaned again. My hand went to my stomach. His eyes fell onto where I was clutching.

"You're in pain?" he asked.

I nodded my head before falling onto the bed again. Kai moved onto the bed.

"What can I do to help you?"

"Nothing. I didn't bring any medicine into my room. My heating patches are in the closet in the hallway. I don't want to risk opening the door too. I have nothing to help me," I moaned and tears welled up in my eyes.

It was really painful, and everything was just making me overwhelmed. Before I knew it, Kai's hands touched mine, that were clutching my stomach. Slowly, he began massaging my stomach. It eased the pain, and I rolled onto my back to give him better access. Taking deep breaths, I focused my mind on somewhere else and allowed his hands to help ease the pain.

"Will you be okay with staying tonight?" I asked him.

His eyes moved from where he was massaging to my face. He nodded his head.

"I'll stay. You'll need me."