ANOTHER RIDE

CARLA

"Hurry up, Carla!" My impatient roommates yelled from the bedroom.

"Coming!" I yelled back from the bathroom.

I was almost late for my first class. Just ten minutes more and I would be late. I slept past my usual time, so I had little time to prepare for school.

I had already dressed up when I felt the wetness dropping into my panties, and then the slight ache in my lower abdomen was all the signs I needed that it was that time of the month.

How did I forget? I'd been so busy with school and work that I didn't remember to buy some tampons.

Borrowing wasn't my forte, but I had to, and thank Goddess, my roommates were kind enough to give me a couple of pads.

But I needed painkillers, too, for the pending vicious cramps. They didn't have any. Now, I am scared of going to school.

The pain was already brewing. It might worsen in school, and I wouldn't know what to do.

I thought of skipping school today, but even that scared me the most. I had important classes, p